Pope Francis has created political controversy, both inside and outside the Catholic Church, by blaming capitalism for many of the problems of the poor. We can no doubt expect more of the same during his visit to the United States. Pope Francis is part of a larger...
One of the secrets of successful magicians on stage is directing the audience's attention to something that is attractive or distracting, but irrelevant to what is actually being done. That is also the secret of successful political charlatans. Consider the message directed at business owners by Senator Elizabeth...
One of the many painful signs of the mindlessness of our times was a recent section of the Wall Street Journal, built around the theme "What's Holding Women Back in the Workplace?" Whenever some group is not equally represented in some institution or activity, the automatic response in...
Good Riddance! The impending departure of Speaker of the House John Boehner gives the House Republicans a real opportunity to accomplish something. But an opportunity is not a guarantee. It is a little like a football team being first down and goal at the ten-yard line. You...
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The grand illusion of zealots for laws preventing ordinary, law-abiding people from having guns is that "gun control" laws actually control guns. In a country with many millions of guns, not all of them registered, this is a fantasy and a farce. Guns do not vanish into thin...
ThomasSowell, my colleague and friend, told me several years ago that he wasn't going to write any more books, but that was two books … They include geographical, cultural, social and political factors, which Sowell explains in individual chapters. … Sowell points out that most households in the bottom 20 percent in income have no one working.…
President Obama's intrusion into the mourning community of Roseburg, Oregon, in order to promote his political crusade for stronger gun control laws, is part of a pattern of his using various other sites of shooting rampages in the past to promote this long-standing crusade of the political left....
The prevailing social dogma of our time -- that economic and other disparities among groups are strange, if not sinister -- has set off bitter disputes between those who blame genetic differences and those who blame discrimination. Both sides ignore the possibility that groups themselves may differ in...
Many people may share Senator Bernie Sanders' complaint that he was tired of hearing about Hillary Clinton's e-mails. But the controversy is about issues far bigger than e-mails. One issue is the utter disaster created by the Obama administration's foreign policy in Libya, carried out by Hillary...
At the recent televised debate among candidates for the Democrats' nomination for president, Hillary Clinton declared that "the wealthy pay too little" in taxes and "the middle class pays too much." Some people might wish to argue about whether that is true or not, but no rational argument...
As ThomasSowell said to me in an interview about his new book, Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective:
Thomas … Sowell: But if you look instead at people and you say what happened to the people who were in the bottom 20% as of 1975 and on into … ThomasSowell: Yes, literally.…
In recent months there have been a series of cases reported in the media, where some teenage thug -- white, black or Hispanic in different cases -- has been stopped by a policeman for some routine violation of the law and, instead of complying with lawful instructions, such as "show...
been tried on other African-Americans, from brilliant writers such as Shelby Steele; from famous economists Walter Williams and Thomas … Sowell; and from Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas to former U.S. … It's unfortunate that millions of young people don't idolize Williams or Sowell or the others I mentioned.…
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“Elections are not held just for social participation,” said economist ThomasSowell. “They’re not held just to vet our emotions. … Sowell has suggested that for people who refuse to take the time to study the issues and candidates, “their most patriotic act would…
ThomasSowell of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and Dr. … The opposite, of course, is true as the author brilliantly shows us.Practically everyone knows about Thomas Jefferson's flaming phrase … The Black Box," along with the writings of ThomasSowell, ought to be mandatory reading in every high school and American University…
succinct exposes, I recommend Richard Pipes’ “Communism” (from which I drew much information for this series), and the incomparable Thomas … Sowell has written.…
