Nov 11, 2014 – It’s as Thomas Sowell once said, “When deep thinkers see that the world doesn’t match their theories, they try to change the world.…

Nov 11, 2014 – Just what happened last week on election day? And what is going to happen in the years ahead? The most important thing that happened last week was that the country dodged a bullet. Had the Democrats retained control of the Senate, President Obama could have spent his last...

Nov 25, 2014 – to choose conservatism if they’re allowed to make an informed choice. 1) Conservatives hate black Americans: Like Clarence Thomas … , Herman Cain, Ben Carson, Tim Scott, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams and Mia Love?…

Nov 25, 2014 – Jonathan Gruber's several videotaped remarks about the gross deceptions that got ObamaCare passed in Congress should tell us a lot about the Obama administration. And the way that the mainstream media hesitated for days to even mention what Professor Gruber said, while they obsessed over unsubstantiated charges against Bill Cosby,...

Nov 19, 2014 – Thomas Sowell's column last week, in which he says, "Pundits who depict Obama as a weak, lame duck president may be greatly misjudging … As Sowell says, "people who are increasingly questioning Barack Obama's competence are continuing to ignore the alternative possibility…

Nov 18, 2014 – If anyone still has any doubt about the utter cynicism of the Obama administration, a recent agreement between the federal government and the Minneapolis Public Schools should open their eyes. Under the Obama administration, both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice have been leaning on...

Nov 18, 2014 – Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said there were "phrases that serve as an excuse for not thinking." One of these phrases that substitute for thought today is one that depicts the current problems of blacks in America as "a legacy of slavery." New York Times writer...

Dec 13, 2016 – We are now in a kind of political no-man's-land between an administration on its way out and a new administration taking shape. Predictions are always risky -- and nowhere more so than in times like these. What we can do, however, is assess where we are, and what some of...

Dec 6, 2016 – Sometimes life forces us to make decisions, even when we don't have enough information to know how the decision will turn out. The risks may be even greater when people make decisions for other people. Yet there are some who are not only willing, but eager, to take decisions away...

Dec 20, 2016 – Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. … To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate…

Dec 20, 2016 – Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. … To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate…

Dec 28, 2016 – I first read Thomas Sowell in college -- no thanks to my college. … At the majority of America's institutions of "higher learning," reading Thomas Sowell was a subversive act in the early 1990s when … Thank you, Professor Sowell. "…

Dec 28, 2016 – Thomas Sowell has just published a revised and enlarged edition of his classic "Wealth, Poverty and Politics." … Sowell discusses the impact of a number of these factors. One is geography. … Sowell says that over time, there are different people in different income categories.…

Dec 27, 2016 – In honor of Dr. Thomas Sowell's retirement, here are some of his best quotes from his many years as a writer, columnist, and thinker. 1. People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. 2. If you have always believed that everyone should play by...

Dec 27, 2016 – Thomas Sowell Conservative Review called his retirement a "sad day" for conservatives: A sad day for conservatives: Thomas Sowell … of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." - Thomas Sowell — Freedom ???? … —Thomas Sowell — Janie Johnson (@jjauthor) December 27, 2016…

Dec 27, 2016 – Thomas Sowell has officially penned his last column and is saying farewell. “Even the best things come to an end. … Sowell is the most-read conservative columnist of all time. … Sowell.…

Dec 27, 2016 – Even the best things come to an end. After enjoying a quarter of a century of writing this column for Creators Syndicate, I have decided to stop. Age 86 is well past the usual retirement age, so the question is not why I am quitting, but why I kept at...

Dec 27, 2016 – Any honest man, looking back on a very long life, must admit -- even if only to himself -- being a relic of a bygone era. Having lived long enough to have seen both "the greatest generation" that fought World War II and the gratingest generation that we see all...

Jan 6, 2016 – Those who have been marveling at Donald Trump's political showmanship were given a reminder of who is the top showman of them all, when President Barack Obama went on television to make a pitch for his unilateral actions to restrict gun sales and make a more general case for tighter...

Jan 19, 2016 – After months of watching all sorts of political polls, we are finally just a few weeks away from actually beginning to see some voting in primary elections. Polls let people vent their emotions. But elections are held to actually accomplish something. The big question is whether the voters...

Jan 13, 2016 – As Thomas Sowell has written, "In the period from 1954 to 1964 ... the number of blacks in professional, technical, and similar high-level…

Jan 12, 2016 – In recent years, a small but growing number of people have advocated a convention of states to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The reaction to the proposal has been hostile, out of all proportion to either the originality or the danger of such a convention....

Jan 30, 2016 – Of all the many things said about Donald Trump, what was said by Roger Ailes, head of the Fox News Channel, said it all in just two words: "Grow up!" It is amazing how many people have been oblivious to this middle-aged man's spoiled brat behavior, his childish...

Jan 28, 2016 – conservative voters reluctantly supported not because those candidates were strong advocates for conservative principles, but -- to quote Thomas … Sowell -- "better a third-rate fireman than a first-rate arsonist."…

Jan 26, 2016 – The latest tempest in a teapot controversy is over a lack of black nominees for this year's Academy Awards in Hollywood. The assumption seems to be that different groups would be proportionally represented if somebody were not doing somebody else wrong. That assumption carries great weight in...