Apr 19, 2018 – They have no mental framework for talking about what Professor Thomas Sowell calls “cultural capital,” differences in the value placed…

Apr 11, 2018 – series began with an interview of economics professor and columnist Walter Williams, a true icon in his field who we believe, like Thomas … Sowell, has been insulted throughout his career (he's too much of a gentleman to say so himself) by so often being typecast by the…

Feb 1, 2020 – Thomas Aquinas. Its meaning has morphed into today’s nonsensicality. … Definitional Problems Thomas Sowell has cautioned that social justice is redundant to the point of vacuity--by definition, all justice … The Endurance of Social Justice Thomas Sowell argues in The Quest for Cosmic Justice that all justice is inherently social because…

May 1, 2017 – One of the painful realities of our times is how long a political lie can survive, even after having been disproved years ago, or even generations ago. A classic example is the phrase "tax cuts for the rich," which is loudly proclaimed by opponents, whenever there is a proposal...

Apr 28, 2017 – Thomas Sowell was a professor at Cornell University in 1969 when bands of armed black militant students forced visiting parents out … Sowell wrote: "The armed occupation of Willard Straight Hall was about reprimands -- mere reprimands -- received by some members of…

May 13, 2017 – .” -- Thomas Sowell After Hollywood jackass Jimmy Kimmel was criticized for exploiting his son’s illness to push his political…

May 8, 2017 – Economist Thomas Sowell has long argued that politics incentivizes short term thinking for political leaders.…

May 20, 2017 – As the great Thomas Sowell has noted: “The presumed irrationality of the public is a pattern running through many, if not most or…

Jun 27, 2017 – Here's how Thomas Sowell, the great thinker from California, put it: "I have never understood why it is 'greed' to want to keep the … One more piece of wisdom from Thomas Sowell, wisdom that young voters in the embrace of socialism might want to consider: "If you have…

Jul 10, 2017 – And when government gets crony-involved - Thomas Sowell’s definition of greed becomes exceedingly germane: “I have never understood … The very Sowell-esque definition of greed.…

Jul 15, 2017 – We’ve gone so far backwards that as the great Thomas Sowell said, “The problem isn't that Johnny can't read.…

Jul 26, 2017 – Thomas Sowell reveals some of the problem. … Sowell adds, "Nowhere have whole peoples seen their situation reversed more visibly or more painfully than the peoples of the Islamic…

Jul 24, 2017 – Thomas Sowell said it so well: “If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”…

Aug 10, 2017 – Ebony not only excludes Clarence Thomas but also shuts out prominent conservatives Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams. … In 2015, Forbes magazine said: "It's a scandal that economist Thomas Sowell has not been awarded the Nobel Prize. … The exclusion of people like Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams explains why there's no serious discussion in the black…

Jul 13, 2016 – Even in this age of runaway emotions, there are still some people who want to know the facts. Nowhere are facts more important, or more lacking, than in what has been aptly called "The War on Cops," the title of a devastating new book by Heather Mac Donald....

Jul 12, 2016 – There was never a more appropriately named book than "The War on Cops" by Heather Mac Donald, published a few weeks ago, on the eve of the greatest escalation of that war by the ambush murders of five policemen in Dallas. Nor is this war against the police...

Jul 11, 2016 – and their signature sock-it-to-cracker knockout game, documented in ghastly detail by veteran journalist Colin Flaherty, to what Thomas … Sowell has excoriated as the ongoing “orchestrated racial attacks” against persons and property not black: “either whites in general…

Jul 26, 2016 – Black votes matter. If Republicans could get 20 percent of black votes, the Democrats would be ruined. This is highly unlikely, given the approach used by Republicans. However, the point is that Democrats must not only continue to get nine-tenths of black votes, they also need to get a high...

Jul 22, 2016 – In his The Vision of the Anointed, the black American thinker Thomas Sowell shares some examples: (a)As long ago as 1969, black … Sowell rightly concludes: “Many of the ‘racial’ differences based on gross statistics are shown by a finer breakdown to be differences…

Jul 21, 2016 – Some African slave holders, as the black American thinker Thomas Sowell has noted as well, used their slaves as human sacrifices in … Sowell adds: “The death toll on these marches exceeded even the horrific toll on packed slave ships crossing the Atlantic.”…

Jul 19, 2016 – If there were a contest for the most stupid idea in politics, my choice would be the assumption that people would be evenly or randomly distributed in incomes, institutions, occupations or awards, in the absence of somebody doing somebody wrong. Political crusades, bureaucratic empires and lucrative personal careers...

Aug 2, 2016 – The good news is that both political conventions are now behind us. The bad news is that the election is ahead of us. No one knows how this election will turn out but -- given the awful presidential candidates in both parties -- the worst case scenario may...

Aug 16, 2016 – We keep hearing that "black lives matter," but they seem to matter only when that helps politicians to get votes, or when that slogan helps demagogues demonize the police. The other 99 percent of black lives destroyed by people who are not police do not seem to attract nearly as...

Apr 5, 2020 – Thomas Sowell’s words are, as always, both succinct and accurate, and are no more relevant to our lives than today. … Thomas Sowell wrote that “The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly.”…

May 7, 2020 – As economist Thomas Sowell said: "In the unconstrained vision, there are no intractable reasons for social evils and therefore no reason…