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  1. To Understand Why Racism Isn't the Problem, Look to South Africa's Pilanesberg Park https://townhall.com/columnists/willalexander/2021/04/02/racism-is-not-the-problem-n2587262
    Sowell, quoted by Dean Kalahar in an American Thinker column, The Decline of the African-American Family. … The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, as Sowell said. What then? … After some masterful detective work by the likes of Sowell, Walter Williams, Larry Elder, Bob Woodson, Shelby Steele and others, the…
  2. Standing Up to the Mob https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2021/01/20/standing-up-to-the-mob-n2583392
    Yet, economist Thomas Sowell says, "I haven't been able to find a single country in the world where policies advocated for Blacks in … "Propaganda," Sowell calls it. … Starting next week, you can watch a new documentary on Sowell's life, "Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World," online at…
  3. Is Truth Irrelevant? https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2021/01/12/is-truth-irrelevant-n2582977
    Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.…
  4. What Left-Wing Educators Don't Teach During 'Black History Month' https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2021/02/18/what-l…ing-educators-dont-teach-during-black-history-month-n2584895
    As economist and author Thomas Sowell says: "More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than Blacks brought as slaves to the…
  5. Walter Williams: A Warrior For Liberty! https://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2020/12/03/walter-williams-a-warrior-for-liberty-n2580988
    himself a teacher, he often said he never stopped learning—particularly from his friend and fellow defender of liberty, Professor Thomas … Sowell. …
  6. Walter E. Williams 1936-2020 https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2020/12/02/walter-e-williams-19362020-n2580965
    Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.…
  7. 'A Great Loss for America': RIP Walter Williams https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2020/12/02/a-great-loss-for-america-rip-walter-williams-n2580950
    (@storm_paglia) December 2, 2020 Update: Thomas Sowell, Williams's best friend, penned a touching tribute, which is available to read…
  8. A Eulogy for My Father, Walter E. Williams https://townhall.com/columnists/devonwilliams/2020/12/15/a-eulogy-for-my-father-walter-e-williams-n2581604
    I've spoken to one of the greatest minds and prolific writers this country has to offer: Thomas Sowell. … I've heard from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, real estate developer Harlan Crow and businessman Charles Koch. … Sowell, "On the day I die, I'd like to have taught a class." Teaching was his passion. It was his gift.…
  9. Remembering Walter Williams, Friend and Mentor https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2020/12/10/remembering-walter-williams-friend-and-mentor-n2581298
    "Two economists, who happen to be Black, Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams. … "For over 30 years, Thomas Sowell, currently with the Hoover Institution, and Walter Williams, chairman of the economics department … "The exclusion of people like Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams explains why there's no serious discussion in the…
  10. A Conservative New Year’s Resolution https://townhall.com/columnists/loydpettegrew/2020/12/27/a-conservative-new-years-resolution-n2582134
    indicates only 10.2% of married couples in America are interracial, yet 39% of TV ads now display them.”When voting in the future, as Thomas … Sowell urged back in 2010, “When you vote on the basis of rhetoric and symbolism instead of using your mind,  it doesn’t matter how…
  11. The Rhetorical Sophistry of Marxist Organizations in America https://townhall.com/columnists/loydpettegrew/2020/09/08/the…rical-sophistry-of-marxist-organizations-in-america-n2575770
    The easily researched truth is Thomas Edison was indeed the first inventor of the light bulb and secured patents in 1879 and 1880. … This amounts to rhetorical welfare for the Black community and as black scholars like Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams Shelby Steele…
  12. Trump’s Directive on Critical Race Theory Affirms Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vision https://townhall.com/columnists/timothydaughtry/2020/09/23/t…ical-race-theory-affirms-martin-luther-kings-vision-n2576748
    As economists Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, among others, have demonstrated, remaining racial disparities in academic achievement … social indices are more attributable to 60 years of leftist social policies that have devastated the black family and promoted what Sowell…
  13. Academia’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Trifecta Threatens Us All https://townhall.com/columnists/loydpettegrew/2020/09/21/aca…versity-equity--inclusion-trifecta-threatens-us-all-n2576513
    In Discrimination and Disparities, Thomas Sowell argues that unequal distributions of income, employment and other social outcomes…
  14. Changing Your Birth Sex: The Emperor’s New Clothes https://townhall.com/columnists/edbrodow/2023/04/03/changing-your-birth-sex-the-emperors-new-clothes-n2621453
    Economist Thomas Sowell explained why this is particularly true today.  … When asked why American voters used to be able to see through obvious nonsense, Sowell replied, “That was before nonsense became a…
  15. Why The Left Is Intellectually Bereft https://townhall.com/columnists/brucebialosky/2018/11/11/why-the-left-is-intellectually-bereft-n2535605
    We had Krauthammer at the time and, of course, the master, Thomas Sowell.   … Of course, Krauthammer is writing in heaven and Sowell is retired, but Townhall.com still has almost every columnist of worth in the…
  16. NewsBusted: Impeachment, Thomas Sowell, and Super Bowl 50 https://townhall.com/video/nonenone/2014/08/15/newsbusted-impeachment-thomas-sowell-and-super-bowl-50-n1879300
  17. Attacking Achievement https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/08/12/attacking-achievement-n1877398
    New York's mayor, Bill de Blasio, like so many others who call themselves "progressive," is gung-ho to solve social problems. In fact, he is currently on a crusade to solve an educational problem that doesn't exist, even though there are plenty of other educational problems that definitely do exist....
  18. D.C. Disease and the GOP's "Electeds" https://townhall.com/columnists/hughhewitt/2014/08/26/dc-disease-and-the-gops-electeds-n1883396
    Prager Reince Priebus Glenn Reynolds Marji Ross Karl Rove Avik Roy Jennifer Rubin Joe Scarboroughh Thomas … Sowell Mark Steyn Kimberly Strassel Brad Thor Vince Vaughn Byron York Pete Wehner Rick Warren George…
  19. Facts vs. Visions https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/08/26/facts-vs-visions-n1883052
    The political left has been campaigning against the use of force since at least the 18th century. So it is not surprising that they are now arguing that heavily armed or aggressive police forces only inflame protesters and thus provoke violence. Statisticians have long warned that correlation is...
  20. The Media and the Mob https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/08/20/untitled-n1881093
    Those of us who admit that we were not there, and do not know what happened when Michael Brown was shot by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, seem to be in the minority. We all know what has happened since then -- and it has been a complete disgrace...
  21. Racial Irrationality on the Right https://townhall.com/columnists/jackkerwick/2014/08/20/untitled-n1880585
    Thomas Sowell once noted that few topics so tap the irrational excesses of a person’s intellect as that of race. … Sowell has never been more right: nothing screams “irrational” like contemporary talk over race relations.…
  22. Random Thoughts https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/08/19/random-thoughts-n1880181
    Random thoughts on the passing scene: I don't know why we are spending our hard-earned money paying taxes to support a criminal justice system, when issues of guilt and innocence are being determined on television -- and even punishment is being meted out by CNN's showing the home...
  23. The 25 Most Influential People On The Right For 2014 https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2014/09/06/the-25-most-influential-people-on-the-right-for-2014-n1888129
    O'Reilly, Tony Perkins, Judson Phillips, Reince Priebus, Glenn Reynolds, Marco Rubio ,Christopher Ruddy, Sal Russo, Antonin Scalia, Thomas … Sowell, Dustin Stockton, Erik Telford, Joe Wierzbicki 25) Paul Ryan: The former VP candidate has been a difference-maker in the…
  24. Irresponsible Choices https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/09/02/irresponsible-choices-n1885612
    The latest Gallup poll indicates that 14 percent of the people "moderately disapprove" of Barack Obama's performance as president and 39 percent "strongly disapprove." Since Obama won two presidential elections, chances are that some of those who now "strongly disapprove" of what he has done voted to put...
  25. Idiotic: VA Training Manual Depicts Angry Veterans as Sesame Street Character https://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2014/08/30/idiot…with-disgruntled-veterans-depicts-them-as-this-guy-n1884433
    To paraphrase the economist Thomas Sowell, some ideas are so stupid only a government agency would adopt them.…