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.…
ThomasSowell, 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…
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...
ThomasSowell. … 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…
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.…
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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
What about ThomasSowell, 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…
He was quoting ThomasSowell, a well known black conservative economist. … Kanye is tweeting about ThomasSowell... the world may never be the same https://t.co/Gm0fofpPyB — Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky…
Ebony not only excludes Clarence Thomas but also shuts out prominent conservatives ThomasSowell and Walter Williams. … In 2015, Forbes magazine said: “It’s a scandal that economist ThomasSowell has not been awarded the Nobel Prize. … The exclusion of people like Clarence Thomas, ThomasSowell and Walter Williams explains why there’s no serious discussion in the black…
