Results for: Thomas Sowell
Last Chance for America?
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/03/01/last-chance-for-america-n2126680
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The "Super Tuesday" primaries may be a turning point for America -- and quite possibly a turn for the worse. After seven long years of domestic disasters and increasing international dangers, the next President of the United States will need extraordinary wisdom, maturity, depth of knowledge and personal character to...
What Is Trumponomics? (Interview with Trump Economic Advisor Stephen Moore)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/christophernmalagisi/2018/11/2…interview-with-trump-economic-advisor-stephen-moore-n2536297
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Alexander Hamilton’s Real Economic NemesisEp. 24: Economist George Gilder Explains Google’s “Marxism”Ep. 5: Interview With Economist Thomas … Sowell Make sure you never miss an episode.…
Don't Let Trump Hatred Thwart the School Choice Movement
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2018/11/22/dont-let-trump-hatred-thwart-the-school-choice-movement-n2536360
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Thomas Sowell, who supports private school choice, also emphasizes the importance of comparing apples to apples. … "My favorite way of making comparisons among truly comparable students," says Sowell, "is to get educational results from schools where…
Jared: The Birdbrain of Alcatraz
https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2018/11/21/jared-the-birdbrain-of-alcatraz-n2536364
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As Thomas Sowell writes in "The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy," the stage was set.…
Moral Bankruptcy
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2018/11/19/moral-bankruptcy-n2536212
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People who follow politics, even casually, learn not to expect high moral standards from politicians. But there are some outrages that show a new low, even for politicians. Among the consequences of Democrats' recent election victories, especially at the state and local levels, is the election of officials who...
Black Education: What Makes Sense?
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2018/11/28/black-education-what-makes-sense-n2536464
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Thomas Sowell. … Sowell compared 2016-17 scores on the New York state ELA test. … Sowell points out that only 39 percent of students in all New York state schools who were recently tested scored at the "proficient…
Gifts For People Who Love Liberty
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2018/12/12/liberty-gifts-n2537330
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A simpler, more America-focused book from which to learn about economics is Thomas Sowell's "Basic Economics." … Sowell writes in plain English, without graphs or equations. … Not only will Sowell educate your socialist friends, he'll show Donald Trump fans why free trade is good.…
Political Translations
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2015/11/25/political-translations-n2084502
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It is amazing how many different ways the same thing can be said, creating totally different impressions. For example, when President Barack Obama says that defeating ISIS is going to take a long time, how is that different from saying that he is going to do very little, very slowly?...
The Disappearing Governors
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2015/11/24/the-disappearing-governors-n2084501
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There is a painful irony in a recent decision of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, on the side of Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, whom the U.S. Department of Justice tried to stop from making charter schools widely available to minority youngsters in his state. The...
Education Disaster
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2015/11/18/education-disaster-n2081477
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Thomas Sowell has written volumes on black education. The magnitude of today's black education tragedy is entirely new.…
Random Thoughts
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2015/11/17/random-thoughts-n2081476
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Random thoughts on the passing scene: Some financial institutions may be considered "too big to fail," but contemporary Western society may be too frivolous to survive. The Romans had bread and circuses to keep the masses passive and unthinking. We have electronic gadgets, drugs and pornography. Like the...
Stop the Bleeding
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2015/11/17/stop-the-bleeding-n2081475
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There was a painful irony when France's immediate response to the terrorist attacks in Paris was to close the borders. If they had closed the borders decades ago, they might have avoided this attack. Someone once said that the First World War was the most stupid thing...
A Resurgence of Intolerance
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2015/12/01/a-resurgence-of-intolerance-n2086969
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Storm trooper tactics by bands of college students making ideological demands across the country, and immediate preemptive surrender by college administrators -- such as at the University of Missouri recently -- bring back memories of the 1960s, for those of us old enough to remember what it was like being...
Christmas Gifts
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People who want to buy Christmas gifts, without having to confront the crowds at the local shopping mall (or shopping maul) can take a load off their feet by buying books or movies on the Internet, while sitting in the comfort of their own homes. In addition to...
Attacking the Truth: Part II
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2015/12/15/attacking-the-truth-part-ii-n2093670
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The case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court, involving racial double standards in admissions to the University of Texas at Austin, has an Alice-in-Wonderland quality that has been all too common in other Supreme Court cases involving affirmative action in academia, going all the way back to 1978.
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The President's Speech
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2015/12/08/the-presidents-speech-n2090510
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When the President of the United States asks the television networks to set aside time for him to broadcast a speech from the Oval Office, we can usually expect that he has something new to say. But President Obama's speech Sunday night was just a rehash of what he has...
Slavery: What They Didn't Teach in My High School
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2018/07/12/slavery-what-they-didnt-teach-in-my-high-school-n2499454
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What about Thomas Sowell, the brilliant economist/historian/philosopher, who happens to be black? … Sowell writes: "Of all the tragic facts about the history of slavery, the most astonishing to an American today is that, although slavery … Sowell also wrote: "The region of West Africa ... was one of the great slave-trading regions of the continent -- before, during, and…
You Won't Believe Who Kanye Is Quoting Now
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/04/30/you-wont-believe-who-kanye-is-quoting-now-n2476090
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He was quoting Thomas Sowell, a well known black conservative economist. … Kanye is tweeting about Thomas Sowell... the world may never be the same https://t.co/Gm0fofpPyB — Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky…
Why Democrats Are Terrified of 'Woke Kanye'
https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2018/04/30/why-democrats-are-terrified-of-woke-kanye-n2475841
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In other words, even ‘woke Kanye’ has a long way to go before he’s the next Thomas Sowell.…
Kanye vs. The Thought Police
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2018/04/22/kanye-vs-the-thought-police-n2473437
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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…
The 'Uncle Tom' Card Is Dead
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2018/05/02/the-uncle-tom-card-is-dead-n2476578
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--Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. --Judge Janice Rogers Brown. --Author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza. … --Economist Thomas Sowell. --Economist Walter Williams. --Scholar Glenn Loury. --Turning Point USA activist Candace Owens.…
Oh, Say Kanye Sees
https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2018/05/02/oh-say-kanye-sees-n2476497
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West met with conservative activist Candace Owens and tweeted quotes from Thomas Sowell.…
Are African Americans Truly Warming up to Trump?
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2020/09/04/are-african-americans-truly-warming-up-to-trump-n2575628
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From Condoleezza Rice to Clarence Thomas to Thomas Sowell to Walter Williams to Larry Elder, conservative blacks have been egregiously…
The Left's Battle Against 'Inequality'
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2019/05/23/the-lefts-battle-against-inequality-n2546748
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In his book "Discrimination and Disparities," economist Thomas Sowell notes that a disproportionate percentage of first-born siblings … This, says Sowell, illustrates the absurdities of expecting equal results when equal results do not even occur within the same family…
Ideas Over Personalities
https://townhall.com/columnists/ericcervone/2019/06/03/ideas-over-personalities-n2547275
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Read the works of some of the greatest advocates for freedom: Thomas Paine, Adam Smith, John Locke, Frederick Bastiat, Milton Friedman … , Thomas Sowell…the list is endless.…