Everyone seems to have an opinion about the tragic events in Ferguson, Missouri. But, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say, "You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts." Soon after the shooting death of Michael Brown, this 285-pound young man was...
Critics and defenders of the harsh interrogation methods applied to captured terrorists can argue forever over whether those methods were "torture." But any serious discussion of a serious issue -- and surely terrorism qualifies as serious -- has to move beyond semantics and confront the ultimate question: "Compared to what...
Back in 1949, to quote Thomas Sowell's magisterial textbook "Basic Economics," unemployment among black teenage males "was lower than … Or as ThomasSowell put it, "The real minimum wage is zero: unemployment."…
which is the defining issue in the socialist economic platform), the answer is no (though the White House surely won’t like how Thomas … Sowell describes Obama’s ideology). … Closing on a serious note, John Mackey and Steve Horwitz agree with ThomasSowell about Obama’s real economic ideology.…
This year, Christmas shopping may be an especially welcome respite from the ugly events going on across the country, as mobs take to the streets because grand juries that examined evidence reached different conclusions from those reached by mobs who made up their minds without examining that evidence....
The fiasco of "Rolling Stone" magazine's apology for an unsubstantiated claim of gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house -- and the instant rush to judgment of the university administration in shutting down all fraternities, when those charges were made -- should warn us about the dangers of...
The cold-blooded murder of two New York City policemen as they sat in their car is not only an outrage but also a wake-up call. It shows, in the most painful way, the high cost of having demagogues, politicians, mobs and the media constantly taking cheap shots at the police....
ThomasSowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. … To find out more about ThomasSowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate…
Some of us, who are old enough to remember the old television police series "Dragnet," may remember Sgt. Joe Friday saying, "Just the facts, ma'am." But that would be completely out of place today. Facts are becoming obsolete, as recent events have demonstrated. What matters today is...
Random thoughts on the passing scene: Now that Barack Obama is ruling by decree, he seems more like a king than a president. Maybe it is time we change the way we address him. "Your Majesty" may be a little too much, but perhaps "Your Royal Glibness" might...
The brilliant ThomasSowell, when in college, considered himself a Marxist. Asked what changed him, Sowell said, "Evidence." … Sowell learned two things, both of which he found startling. … In short, Sowell found that the Department of Labor did not care about the real-world effects of the minimum wage law.…
Thomas Sowell's newest book "Discrimination and Disparities," which is an enlarged and revised edition of an earlier version. … Sowell gives the example of blacks, who make up close to 70 percent of NFL and AFL players in professional football. … Sowell says that a single inconspicuous difference in circumstance can make a huge historical difference in human outcomes.…
ThomasSowell has just published a revised and enlarged edition of "Discrimination and Disparities." … Throughout the book, Sowell shows that socioeconomic outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups and nations in ways that cannot … Sowell points out that if historical injustices and persecution were useful explanations of group disadvantage, Jews would be some…
ThomasSowell has examined schools in New York City and student performance on the NY State English Language Arts Test in 2016-17. … Sowell points out that only 39% of students in all New York state schools who were recently tested scored at the "proficient" level…
