Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Thomas Sowell, economics, politics, and life are all questions of trade-offs. So too is photography, the lifelong hobby he ...

Back in the 1960s, as large numbers of black students were entering a certain Ivy League university for the first time, someone asked a chemistry professor — off the record — what his response to them ...

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. Thomas Sowell is considered by many to be one ...

Through their writings, interviews, and lectures, Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell offered clear, data-driven answers to the social and economic problems facing our nation. This month, we encourage ...

If I were to rank post-World War II public intellectuals and social theorists, the Hoover Institution’s Thomas Sowell would take the top spot. There could be a real debate about who is #2, but it ...

The assumption upon which the entire social justice vision rests is that people and groups would achieve relatively similar outcomes if it weren’t for the singular factor of “discrimination by ...

Thomas Sowell turned 91 this week. One suspects his face never catches up to his age. But long ago his behavior betrayed an inner-directed curmudgeon decades older than his birth certificate. Jason ...

“Despite how persuasive the words of John Rawls and other ‘social justice’ advocates may be in the world of words, demonstrated facts in the world of reality raise the crucial question as to whether ...

Author and Hoover Institution senior fellow Thomas Sowell said on Tuesday that much of the left's ideology "falls apart like a house of cards" under scrutiny. “I think many, if not most, of the people ...

Thomas Sowell argues that ideology has replaced knowledge and that well-intentioned policies often harm the very people they are meant to help. The persistent illusions and delusions of ‘anointed’ ...

Last week, Dr. Thomas Sowell–brilliant economist, erudite scholar, prolific and wide-ranging author–announced his retirement from writing his popular syndicated column. The announcement came with ...

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