If you want to get some idea of the moral bankruptcy of our educational system, read an article in the May 4th issue of the New York Times Magazine titled, "The Tale of Two Schools."
The article is not about moral bankruptcy. But it is itself an example of...
ThomasSowell offers some evidence in a recent column, "Will Dunbar Rise Again?" (http://tinyurl.com/mjt39ks). … Sowell says, "Of all the cynical frauds of the Obama administration, few are so despicable as sacrificing the education of poor and…
Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker was internationally renowned within the economics profession, but was not nearly as well known among the general public as he deserved to be. More important, his path-breaking ideas, including his analysis of the economics of racial discrimination, deserved to be much more a part of...
It was a little much when President Barack Obama said that he was "offended" by the suggestion that his administration would try to deceive the public about what happened in Benghazi. What has this man not deceived the public about?Remember his pledge to cut the deficit in half in his...
Confidence men know that their victim -- "the mark" as he has been called -- is eventually going to realize that he has been cheated. But it makes a big difference whether he realizes it immediately, and goes to the police, or realizes it after the confidence man is long...
largely consisted of doing what feels good and compassionate without asking what the long-term consequences will be; what Professor Thomas … Sowell calls "Stage One Thinking."…
The most successful Republican presidential candidate of the past half century-- Ronald Reagan, who was elected and reelected with landslide victories-- bore little resemblance to the moderate candidates that Republican conventional wisdom depicts as the key to victory, even though most of these moderate candidates have in fact gone down...
Some media pundits see in the growing proportion of non-white groups in the population a growing opposition to the Republican Party that will sooner or later make it virtually impossible for Republicans to win presidential elections or even to control either house of Congress. But is demography destiny?...
Mitt Romney now joins the long list of the kinds of presidential candidates favored by the Republican establishment-- nice, moderate losers, people with no coherently articulated vision, despite how many ad hoc talking points they may have.
The list of Republican presidential candidates like this goes back at least...
This country is at a historic crossroads, and the path we choose can determine our future far beyond the next four years. Our children and grandchildren may someday bless us or curse us for what we do this Tuesday. Against that background, it is painful to see the petty talking...
Among the objections to ObamaCare, one that has not gotten as much attention as it should is the president's power to waive the law for any company, union or other enterprise he chooses.The 14th Amendment to the Constitution provides for "equal protection of the laws" for all Americans. To have...
people can remove a bad leader
I don’t know if this is because he recognizes the danger of untrammeled majoritarianism, much like Thomas … Sowell, George Will, and Walter Williams.…
Few things can make you appreciate home like staying in a hotel. This includes not only low-budget, bare bones hotels but also sweepingly large and ornate luxury hotels. What many hotels seem to have in common are needless hassles.
Since most people who stay in hotels...
Killing the goose that lays the golden egg is one of those old fairy tales for children which has a heavy message that a lot of adults should listen to. The labor unions which have driven the makers of Twinkies into bankruptcy, potentially destroying 18,500 jobs, could have...
Editor's Note: This column is part II in a series. Part I can be found here.
One of the big advantages that President Obama has, as he plays "chicken" with the Congressional Republicans along the "fiscal cliff," is that Obama is a master of the plausible lie, which...
Amid all the political and media hoopla about the "fiscal cliff" crisis, there are a few facts that are worth noting.First of all, despite all the melodrama about raising taxes on "the rich," even if that is done it will scarcely make a dent in the government's financial problems....
If everyone in America had read Stephen Moore's new book, "Who's
The Fairest of Them All?", Barack Obama would have lost the election in a
landslide.
The point here is not to say, "Where was Stephen Moore when we
needed him?" A...
Anyone who has followed the decades-long controversies over the role of genes in IQ scores will recognize the names of the two leading advocates of opposite conclusions on that subject-- Professor Arthur R. Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley and Professor James R. Flynn, an American expatriate at...
ThomasSowell makes a similar argument in his work, Intellectuals and Society. … Where Sowell used studies and decades of research to back up his points supporting his thesis, Sayet looks more at the anecdotal to … Sowell aimed to explain the influence of liberal academia and thinking on society but Sayet hopes to explain the source of that liberal…
With all the talk about taxing the rich, we hear very little talk about taxing the poor. Yet the marginal tax rate on someone living in poverty can sometimes be higher than the marginal tax rate on millionaires.
While it is true that nearly half the households...
