be doing. 4) Liberals Draw Self-Esteem From Taking Positions That Make Them Appear More Sensitive Than other People: As Thomas … Sowell has said, “The very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to (liberals).…
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…
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…
Editor's Note: This piece is a continuation of The Left and the Masses and The Left and the Masses Part II. Claiming the role of champions of the masses is something the political left has been doing ever since there has been a political left -- which is to say, ever...
Editor's Note: This piece is a continuation of The Left and the Masses. It is never easy to tell what people's motives are. But, when the political left proclaims their devotion to improving the lives of others in general, and of the poor in particular, we can at least get...
The greatest moral claim of the political left is that they are for the masses in general and the poor in particular. That is also their greatest fraud. It even fools many leftists themselves. One of the most recent efforts of the left is the spread of...
The political left keeps announcing, as if it is a new breakthrough discovery of theirs, that life is unfair. Have they never read Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," more than two and a half centuries ago? What about economic historian David S. Landes' statement:...
It is especially painful for me, as an economist, to see that two small cities in northern California -- San Mateo and Burlingame -- have rent control proposals on the ballot this election year. There are various other campaigns, in other places around the country, for and...
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…
As the post-election shock of some, and the euphoria of others, both begin to wear off, the country and the new administration will have some very serious problems to face, at home and abroad. How those problems are faced -- or evaded -- will tell us a lot about the...
A Hillary Clinton victory would have meant a third consecutive administration dedicated to dismantling the institutions that have kept America free, and imposing instead the social vision of the smug elites. That could have been the ultimate catastrophe -- not just for our time, but for generations yet unborn....
In most Presidential election years, the most important vote is the vote for President of the United States. This year, the most important vote looks like the vote for control of the Senate. Regardless of who wins the White House, the freedom that Americans have taken for granted -- taken...
Let's talk sense about the election. Nothing is to be gained by refusing to face the hard facts. What are those facts?
First of all, neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump has the qualifications, the track record or the personal character to be President of the United States....
This is a football story with both political and legal implications. It was fourth down in a National Football League game, and the punting team came onto the field. The other team went into their formation to defend against the punt. Then somebody noticed that the man set to...
People who call themselves "progressives" claim to be forward-looking, but a remarkable amount of the things they say and do are based on looking backward. One of the maddening aspects of the thinking, or non-thinking, on the political left is their failure to understand that there is nothing...
.” – ThomasSowell 2) “To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives … unequal things equal.” — Aristotle 4) “That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”— Thomas … step of the way.” – Ayn Rand 17) “Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.” — Thomas…
ThomasSowell. In less than 200 pages, Sowell lays waste to myth after myth not only in the United States but around the globe. … In Chapter 2, Sowell provides evidence that people won't take racial discrimination at any cost. … At several points in the book, Sowell points to the tragedies created in the pursuit of social justice.…
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…
Thomas Aquinas. Its meaning has morphed into today’s nonsensicality. … Definitional Problems ThomasSowell has cautioned that social justice is redundant to the point of vacuity--by definition, all justice … The Endurance of Social Justice ThomasSowell argues in The Quest for Cosmic Justice that all justice is inherently social because…
