Results for: Thomas Sowell

Your Castle, Their Plans: 21 Years After Kelo, the Government Still Holds the Key
https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/06/22/your-c…years-after-kelo-the-government-still-holds-the-key-n2678051
– Justice Clarence Thomas was sharper in dissent: he warned that these takings fall hardest on the poor and politically weak — the very … Thomas Sowell would recognize it as a pattern — what he calls the vision of the anointed, the assumption that officials and their preferred…
America Needs Fewer Performers and More Adults
https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/06/22/america-needs-fewer-performers-and-more-adults-n2678064
– Thomas Sowell observed that the first lesson of economics is scarcity, and the first lesson of politics is to ignore that lesson.…
The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations Has a Law Degree
https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/06/20/the-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations-has-a-law-degree-n2678018
– Thomas Sowell explained the failure mode decades ago: preferential placement puts students in programs they're not ready for, producing…
Fight Night at 1600: The Outrage Industry Meets the Octagon
https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/06/10/fight…ight-at-1600-the-outrage-industry-meets-the-octagon-n2677520
– Thomas Sowell spent a career explaining that outcomes track behavior, not grievance.…
The Algorithm Knows Where, Not Why
https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/06/13/the-algorithm-knows-where-not-why-n2677631
– Thomas Sowell has been making this argument for 40 years.…
Let’s All Support AOC's Run for President
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2026/06/06/lets-all-support-aocs-run-for-president-n2677330
– She is a master of pontification and not much else.Dr Thomas Sowell, one of the most knowledgeable people you can encounter, and an…
America’s $521 Billion Fraud Problem Is Finally Meeting Its Match
https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/06/07/americ…billion-fraud-problem-is-finally-meeting-its-match-n2677265
– Thomas Sowell said it plainly in "A Conflict of Visions": “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”…
How News Aggregators Reinforce Political Ignorance
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2026/05/21/how-news-aggregators-reinforce-political-ignorance-n2676436
– This reminded me of a dinner conversation I once had with economist Thomas Sowell. … Given this consensus," I asked Sowell, "why does the minimum wage remain so popular even among some Republican politicians?…
The Thing That Works
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2026/05/13/the-thing-that-works-n2675983
– capitalism also lifted more people out of poverty, created more opportunities and improved more lives than any other system.Economist Thomas … Sowell said, "I don't ask, 'What is the cause of poverty?' … Sowell put it well," concludes Forbes. "What is the difference between people today and people in the Stone Age?…
Bay Area Report on ICE Raids Is Peak Elite Cope
https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/05/18/bay-area-report-on-ice-raids-is-peak-elite-cope-n2676219
– Thomas Sowell spent decades explaining it to anyone paying attention.…
What 'Rights' Do They Want That They Don’t Already Have?
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/05/08/what-rights-do-they-want-that-they-dont-already-have-n2675663
– The great Thomas Sowell once wrote, "If you believe in equal rights, then what do ‘women's rights,’ ‘gay rights,’ etc., mean? … If homosexuals or woman or blacks must have their own special set of “rights,” then that means, as Sowell so correctly points out, … “Equal rights for all, special privileges for none,” Thomas Jefferson said, but that isn’t what the Democratic Party believes.Of course…
The Race-Obsessed Left Complains When the Supreme Court Issues a Colorblind Ruling
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2026/05/07/the-ra…s-when-the-supreme-court-issues-a-colorblind-ruling-n2675653
– Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, in the recent case that … As Thomas Sowell says, "When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination."…
Counties, Not Capitals: The NPVIC Threat and the Case for a Real Electoral Reset
https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/05/03/counti…pvic-threat-and-the-case-for-a-real-electoral-reset-n2675396
– As Thomas Sowell has argued across decades of scholarship, the structural safeguards against institutional capture are not relics —…
The Brilliant 'Reasoning' of the Left
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/02/12/the-brilliant-reasoning-of-the-left-n2671178
–  I suggest that Cranston ask Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, Thomas Sowell, and millions of other comfortably…
TrumpRx Triggers TDS in Elizabeth Warren
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/02/08/trumprx-triggers-tds-in-elizabeth-warren-n2670931
– I mean it’s incredible, it’s stupendous, it’s like the most incredible program ever.”pic.twitter.com/YfHXl0Iwbx— Thomas Sowell Quotes…
What a MAGA Leftist Said on CNN Last Night Caused the Panel to Totally Melt Down
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/02/04/what-a-ma…nn-last-night-caused-the-panel-to-totally-melt-down-n2670647
– …" *Erupts*Batya: "He has the most multiracial coalition that the Republican Party has ever had.pic.twitter.com/0y8qiZPTsH— Thomas … Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) October 21, 2025Love to hear a multi-millionaire telling Americans to stay home, not go to work, make…
Democrats Don't Understand 'Basic Economics'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2026/01/30/democrats-dont-understand-basic-economics-n2670420
– an AI-generated image showing President Trump refusing a copy of "Basic Economics," a book by legendary conservative economist Thomas …  The account was quick to try and save face, posting only an hour later, "this is a JOKE, it does not mean we endorse Thomas Sowell … Author's Note: this is a JOKE, it does not mean we endorse Thomas Sowell— Ways and Means Democrats (@WaysMeansCmte) January 29, 2026Conservatives…
Chicago's Brandon Johnson Say's There's No Evidence a Corporate Head Tax Is a Job Killer
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/12/14/sun-brandon-johnson-head-tax-n2667825
– .— NOfP-X (@NOfPPlus) December 12, 2025Johnson has not.I wonder if you would spontaneously combust if you read some Thomas Sowell. … December 12, 2025Brandon Johnson is on record saying that being fiscally responsible is akin to slavery, so he'd probably accuse Sowell…
Introducing the AI Civil Rights Act: Solving Imaginary Problems With Terrible Solutions
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/12/11/the-ai-civil-rights-act-n2667744
– Pressley should familiarize herself with the work of Hoover Institute fellow Thomas Sowell, the author of "Discrimination and Disparity…
Democrats Fuel Racial Strife to Get Votes
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2025/12/06/democrats-racists-who-fuel-racial-strife-to-get-votes-n2667468
– Jones, Leo Terrell, Thomas Sowell, Stephen A. … Smith, Shelby Steele, Condoleezza Rice, Allen West, Armstrong Williams, Jason Whitlock, Justice Clarence Thomas, Senator Tim Scott,…
An Ex-Slave’s Answer to the ‘Affordability Crisis’
https://townhall.com/columnists/willalexander/2025/11/25/an-ex-slaves-answer-to-the-affordability-crisis-n2666954
–  Fountain Hughes – grandson of Wormly Hughes, one of Thomas Jefferson’s slaves – said he had a Christian master who treated …  But worse, when government “helps” individuals or corporations with subsidies as a matter of policy, as economist Thomas Sowell …  “… you cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible,” Sowell said.…
Rich Nepo Baby Zohran Mamdani Wants a 'Better Distribution of Wealth'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/11/18/mamdani-better-distribution-of-wealth-n2666605
– pic.twitter.com/7VsXpQd7bQ— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) November 17, 2025"I have many critiques of capitalism," Mamdani said…
In Less Than a Day, Mamdani Has the Press Looking Sheepish
https://townhall.com/columnists/bradslager/2025/11/05/in-les…pish-and-politico-decides-some-lawfare-is-permitted-n2666036
– pic.twitter.com/5ie1ogUsii— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) November 4, 2025And then the man comes out and destroys all of the…
Yet Another Liberal Calls Stephen Miller a Nazi
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/10/24/yet-another-liberal-calls-stephen-miller-a-nazi-n2665438
– pic.twitter.com/bohYt3K3zQ— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) October 24, 2025A White House spokeswoman responded to the smear,…
You Won't Believe Who AOC Blames for Charlie Kirk's Assassination
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/09/11/aooc-b…es-gun-rights-supporters-for-charlie-kirks-shooting-n2663173
– pic.twitter.com/Hrpq5UZR5X— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) September 11, 2025The scourge of gun violence and political violence…
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