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About: Thomas Sowell

The Left’s Vision

The political left keeps announcing, as if it is a new breakthrough discovery of theirs, that life is unfair. ...

Has Economics Failed?

Prices convey economic realities that do not change just because the government changes the prices. It is as if someone's fever was treated by putting the thermometer in cold water to...

Immigration Controversies

People who came here a hundred years ago usually did so in order to fit within the framework of America and become Americans. Some still do. But many come from a...

The Left and the Masses: Part II

It is never easy to tell what people’s motives are. But, when the political left proclaims their devotion to improving the lives of others in general, and of the poor in...

The Left and the Masses

The greatest moral claim of the political left is that they are for the masses in general and the poor in particular. That is also their greatest fraud. It even fools...

Dunbar High School After 100 Years

One hundred years ago, on October 2, 1916, a new public high school building for black youngsters was opened in Washington, D.C. and named for black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Its...

The Academic Curtain

There is no barbed wire around our campuses, nor armed guards keeping unwelcome ideas out. So there is no "iron curtain." But there is a curtain, and it has its effect....

“Favors” to Blacks

Many successful political careers have been built on giving blacks “favors” that look good on the surface but do lasting damage in the long run. ...

Election Year Books

Election year politics generates much rhetoric and confusion. And the media often adds its spin. But, fortunately, there are some books around that deal with reality and can cut through the...

Racial Issues

Ordinarily, it is not a good idea to base how you vote on just one issue. But if black lives really matter, as they should matter like all other lives, then...

Misleading Statistics

Mark Twain famously said that there were three kinds of lies — "lies, damned lies, and statistics." Since this is an election year, we can expect to hear plenty of all...

A Gem in Chicago

We have gotten so used to seeing college presidents and other academic "leaders" caving in to so many outrageous demands from little gangs of bullying students that it is a long...