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...
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...
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...
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 --...
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...
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"...
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...
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...
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...
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.…
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...
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...
Echoing ThomasSowell, 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…
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...
Phillips, Tim Phillips, Reince Priebus, Glenn Reynolds, Marco Rubio, Christopher Ruddy, Sal Russo, Antonin Scalia,Ben Shapiro, Thomas … Sowell, Dustin Stockton, Erik Telford, Joe Wierzbicki
25) Michelle Malkin: Not only is Malkin one of the most popular conservative…
This is how mobility works, and it's one of the most important defenses of capitalism there is, having been made by the likes of Thomas … Sowell and Milton Friedman.…
