Mar 5, 2013 – Back in my teaching days, many years ago, one of the things I liked to ask the class to consider was this: Imagine a government agency with only two tasks: (1) building statues of Benedict Arnold and (2) providing life-saving medications to children. If this agency's budget were cut, what...

Mar 20, 2013 – The main thing wrong with the term limits movement is the "s" at the end of the word "limit."What are advocates of term limits trying to accomplish? If they are trying to keep government from being run by career politicians, whose top priority is getting themselves reelected, then term limits...

Mar 20, 2013 – Thomas Sowell's latest book, "Intellectuals and Race," one cannot emerge with much respect for the reasoning powers of intellectuals … Sowell concludes that our nation is painting itself into a corner when it comes to thinking about racial problems.…

Mar 19, 2013 – A remarkable book titled Gifted Hands tells the personal story of Benjamin Carson, a black kid from the Detroit ghetto who went on to become a renowned neurosurgeon. At one time young Ben Carson had the lowest grades in his middle school class, and...

Mar 15, 2013 – Editor's note: This is Part IV in a series. Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. Part III can be found here. Among the many irrational ideas about racial and ethnic groups that have polarized societies over the centuries and around the world, few...

Mar 14, 2013 – Editor's note: This is Part III in a series. Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. The desire of intellectuals for some grand theory that will explain complex patterns with some solitary and simple factor has produced many ideas that do not stand...

Mar 13, 2013 – Editor's note: This is Part II in a series. Part I can be found here. Once we recognize that large differences in achievement among races, nations and civilizations have been the rule, not the exception, throughout recorded history, there is at least some hope of rational thought --...

Mar 12, 2013 – There are so many fallacies about race that it would be hard to say which is the most ridiculous. However, one fallacy behind many other fallacies is the notion that there is something unusual about different races being unequally represented in various institutions, careers or at different income or achievement...

Mar 31, 2013 – Thomas Sowell in Can It Happen Here?…

Mar 27, 2013 – Many ideas presented as "new" are just rehashes of old ideas that have been tried before -- and have failed before. So it is no surprise that the recent "Growth and Opportunity Project" report to the Republican National Committee is a classic example of what previous generations called "Me too"...

Mar 26, 2013 – The decision of the government in Cyprus to simply take money out of people's bank accounts there sent shock waves around the world. People far removed from that small island nation had to wonder: "Can this happen here?" The economic repercussions of having people feel that their money is...

Apr 10, 2013 – New York City's Stuyvesant High School is one of those all too rare public schools for intellectually outstanding students. Such students are often bored to death in schools where the work is geared to the lowest common denominator, and it is by no means uncommon for very bright students to...

Apr 9, 2013 – Since when has it been considered smart to tell your enemies what your plans are?Yet there on the front page of the April 8th New York Times was a story about how unnamed "American officials" were planning a "proportional" response to any North Korean attack. This was spelled in an...

Apr 5, 2013 – I plunged into Thomas Sowell's latest book "Intellectuals and Race" immediately upon its arrival but soon realized that I needed … Sowell is the opposite. Every sentence contains at least one insight or fascinating statistic, frequently more than one. … Sowell places our obsession in context both historically and internationally.…

Apr 3, 2013 – The Obama administration treated the creation of "democracy" in the Middle East as a Good Thing. Ironically, those who created the United States of America viewed democracy with fear-- and created a Constitutional republic instead. Everything depends on how you define democracy. In its most basic...

Apr 2, 2013 – We all know that guns can cost lives because the media repeat this message endlessly, as if we could not figure it out for ourselves. But even someone who reads newspapers regularly and watches numerous television newscasts may never learn that guns also save lives-- much less see any...

Jul 29, 2013 – Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Charles Krauthammer, Thomas Sowell, or the late William F.…

Jul 26, 2013 – Thomas Sowell writing on the subject, a brilliant and accomplished academic who spent many years of his professional life studying…

Aug 8, 2013 – When it's my turn to comment, I quote columnist Thomas Sowell: "Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three…

Aug 7, 2013 – Echoing Thomas Sowell, who explained that Obama’s agenda technically could be described as fascism, Kevin says that the current administration … Since we’re discussing who is a socialist and who isn’t, Cal Thomas has some wise words on whether religious faith requires socialist…

Aug 6, 2013 – .” -- Thomas Sowell "In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle…

Aug 3, 2013 – -- Thomas Sowell "Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things…

Sep 4, 2013 – Not surprisingly, Thomas Sowell nails this issue, as does Walter Williams, with both criticizing the President for sacrificing the…

Aug 29, 2013 – I would put it on the shelf next to Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell, or next to any of the classics from Hayek or von Mises…

Sep 17, 2013 – Political crusades for raising the minimum wage are back again. Advocates of minimum wage laws often give themselves credit for being more "compassionate" towards "the poor." But they seldom bother to check what are the actual consequences of such laws. One of the simplest and most fundamental economic principles...