Oct 7, 2013 – The erudite conservative columnist Thomas Sowell says the strategy is allowing Obama to deflect attention from his scandals back onto…

Oct 19, 2013 – Unsurprisingly, Thomas Sowell explains this issue with blunt and powerful logic. P.P.P.S.…

Nov 2, 2013 – As Thomas Sowell has sagely observed, “We all make mistakes.…

Nov 12, 2013 – Countries with minimum wage laws almost invariably have higher rates of unemployment than countries without minimum wage laws,” Thomas … Sowell recently wrote. … Not true, Sowell writes: Most people in the lower income brackets are not an enduring class.…

Nov 18, 2013 – Thomas Sowell, Mark Steyn, Paul Krugman and Alan Colmes 10. What books are on your reading list?…

Dec 2, 2014 – Everyone seems to have an opinion about the tragic events in Ferguson, Missouri. But, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say, "You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts." Soon after the shooting death of Michael Brown, this 285-pound young man was...

Dec 16, 2014 – Critics and defenders of the harsh interrogation methods applied to captured terrorists can argue forever over whether those methods were "torture." But any serious discussion of a serious issue -- and surely terrorism qualifies as serious -- has to move beyond semantics and confront the ultimate question: "Compared to what...

Dec 11, 2014 – Back in 1949, to quote Thomas Sowell's magisterial textbook "Basic Economics," unemployment among black teenage males "was lower than … Or as Thomas Sowell put it, "The real minimum wage is zero: unemployment."…

Dec 9, 2014 – .” – Thomas Sowell It’s truly bizarre how often in Obama’s America that we are being presented with “victims” we’re supposed…

Dec 9, 2014 – which is the defining issue in the socialist economic platform), the answer is no (though the White House surely won’t like how Thomas … Sowell describes Obama’s ideology). … Closing on a serious note, John Mackey and Steve Horwitz agree with Thomas Sowell about Obama’s real economic ideology.…

Dec 9, 2014 – This year, Christmas shopping may be an especially welcome respite from the ugly events going on across the country, as mobs take to the streets because grand juries that examined evidence reached different conclusions from those reached by mobs who made up their minds without examining that evidence....

Dec 9, 2014 – The fiasco of "Rolling Stone" magazine's apology for an unsubstantiated claim of gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house -- and the instant rush to judgment of the university administration in shutting down all fraternities, when those charges were made -- should warn us about the dangers of...

Dec 23, 2014 – The cold-blooded murder of two New York City policemen as they sat in their car is not only an outrage but also a wake-up call. It shows, in the most painful way, the high cost of having demagogues, politicians, mobs and the media constantly taking cheap shots at the police....

Dec 21, 2014 – Thomas Sowell was recently asked to reveal his current greatest fear.…

Dec 31, 2014 – 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 30, 2014 – Some of us, who are old enough to remember the old television police series "Dragnet," may remember Sgt. Joe Friday saying, "Just the facts, ma'am." But that would be completely out of place today. Facts are becoming obsolete, as recent events have demonstrated. What matters today is...

Dec 30, 2014 – Random thoughts on the passing scene: Now that Barack Obama is ruling by decree, he seems more like a king than a president. Maybe it is time we change the way we address him. "Your Majesty" may be a little too much, but perhaps "Your Royal Glibness" might...

Dec 29, 2014 – Out of a list of 85 personalities, Scott Walker tied Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas for the most admired.…

Mar 21, 2019 – The brilliant Thomas Sowell, when in college, considered himself a Marxist. Asked what changed him, Sowell said, "Evidence." … Sowell learned two things, both of which he found startling. … In short, Sowell found that the Department of Labor did not care about the real-world effects of the minimum wage law.…

Apr 4, 2019 – Looking at volumes of evidence from across the world, economists such as Thomas Sowell have repeatedly documented that socialism is…

May 8, 2019 – Thomas Sowell's newest book "Discrimination and Disparities," which is an enlarged and revised edition of an earlier version. … Sowell gives the example of blacks, who make up close to 70 percent of NFL and AFL players in professional football. … Sowell says that a single inconspicuous difference in circumstance can make a huge historical difference in human outcomes.…

May 1, 2019 – Thomas Sowell has just published a revised and enlarged edition of "Discrimination and Disparities." … Throughout the book, Sowell shows that socioeconomic outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups and nations in ways that cannot … Sowell points out that if historical injustices and persecution were useful explanations of group disadvantage, Jews would be some…

Sep 2, 2021 – Thomas Sowell and the recently deceased Walter E.…

Sep 22, 2021 – As Thomas Sowell said, it is stupid to put decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. …

Sep 30, 2021 – Thomas Sowell warns, "It doesn't matter what rights you have under the Constitution, if the government can punish you for exercising…