Apr 13, 2010 – When Supreme Court Justices retire, there is usually some pious talk about their "service," especially when it has been a long "service." But the careers of all too many of these retiring jurists, including currently retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, have been an enormous disservice to this country. Justice Stevens...

Apr 27, 2010 – Many years ago, I was surprised to receive a letter from an old friend, saying that she had been told that I refused to see campus visitors from Africa. At the time, I was so bogged down with work that I had agreed to see only one visitor to the...

May 7, 2010 – Economist Thomas Sowell described the political benefit of a VAT: “In general, the less visible a tax is, the revenue can be collected…

May 4, 2010 – Recent stories out of both Philadelphia and San Francisco tell of black students beating up Asian American students. This is especially painful for those who expected that the election of Barack Obama would mark the beginning of a post-racial America. While Obama's winning the majority of the votes in overwhelmingly...

May 19, 2010 – You might think that being a Supreme Court justice would be the top of the line job for someone in the legal profession. But, many Supreme Court decisions suggest that too many justices are not satisfied with their role, and seek more sweeping powers as supreme policy-makers, grand second-guessers or...

May 18, 2010 – One of the many shallow statements that sound good-- if you don't stop and think about it-- is that "at some point, you have made enough money." The key word in this statement, made by President Barack Obama recently, is "you." There is nothing wrong with my deciding how...

May 11, 2010 – One of the many fashionable notions that have caught on among some of the intelligentsia is that old people have "a duty to die," rather than become a burden to others. This is more than just an idea discussed...

May 25, 2010 – A heartbreaking social statistic is that children on welfare have only about half as many words per day directed at them as the children of working-class families-- and less than one-third as many words as children whose parents are professionals. This is especially painful in view of the fact that...

Jun 8, 2010 – Random thoughts on the passing scene: All sorts of "global warming" advocates have all sorts of ideas for cooling the planet. I would be happy if they would just cool the rhetoric. A newspaper...

Jun 1, 2010 – Editors' Note: this is a reprint of a classic Thomas Sowell column. Enjoy! … It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club.…

Jun 17, 2010 – Sometimes you can read a book that will change your mind on some fundamental issue. Rarely, however, is there just one page that can undermine or destroy a widely-held belief. But there is such a page-- page 77 of the book "Out of Work" by Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway....

Jun 15, 2010 – The big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is bad enough in itself. But politics can make anything worse. Let's stop and think. Either the government knows how to stop the oil spill or they don't. If they know how to...

Sep 29, 2020 – We have had black intellectuals like Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, John McWhorter and Shelby Steele debunk the premise of systemic … On a recent “Life, Liberty & Levin” show, Sowell stated that the term “systemic racism” is devoid of substance, “It really has no meaning…

Oct 30, 2020 – Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.…

Nov 11, 2020 – Thomas Sowell compared 2016-17 scores on the New York state ELA test. … Sowell points out that only 39% of students in all New York state schools who were recently tested scored at the "proficient" level…

Nov 18, 2020 – Thomas Sowell has argued, "The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating…

Nov 17, 2020 – They would learn about white slavery, too, from one of the greatest economists of the last half-century, Thomas Sowell, who wrote: … any of his many columns Candace Owens, "Blackout" Jesse Lee Peterson, "The Antidote" Jason Riley, "Please Stop Helping Us" Thomas … Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race" Shelby Steele, "White Guilt" Carol Swain, "Abduction" Clarence Thomas, "My Grandfather's Son"…

Jul 23, 2020 – Thomas Sowell, responding to a statement that Blacks haven't "caught up" with whites, noted, "Well, whites haven't stood still."…

Jul 29, 2020 – As Thomas Sowell reported: "Going back a hundred years, when blacks were just one generation out of slavery, we find that census data … I would like someone to explain how tearing down statues of Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson and Confederate generals help the…

Feb 18, 2016 – Haley's nod, also received good news this week, earning the support of respected conservative economist and Townhall columnist Thomas … Sowell.  …

Feb 17, 2016 – Many people of mature years are amazed at how many young people have voted for Senator Bernie Sanders, and are enthusiastic about the socialism he preaches. Many of those older people have lived long enough to have seen socialism fail, time and again, in countries around the world. Venezuela,...

Feb 16, 2016 – Amid the petty bickering, loud rhetoric and sordid attack ads in this year's primary election campaigns, the death of a giant -- Justice Antonin Scalia -- suddenly overshadows all of that. The vacancy created on the Supreme Court makes painfully clear the huge stakes involved when we choose...

Feb 23, 2016 – Amid all the media analyses of the prospects of each of the candidates in both political parties, there is remarkably little discussion of the validity -- or lack of validity -- of the arguments these candidates are using. It is as if what matters this election year is...

Mar 8, 2016 – Random thoughts on the passing scene: The presidential election prospects for the Democrats are so bad this year that only the Republicans can save them -- as Republicans have saved them before. Will a Supreme Court without a single Protestant justice rule that an "under-representation" of any...

Mar 3, 2016 – The worst political blunder of all time, according to scientist Freeman Dyson, was the decision of the emperor of China in 1433 to cut off his country from the outside world. In the wake of that decision, China lost its position in the forefront of human achievements and fell behind,...