Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy, Emeritus, at the Hoover Institution.
He writes on economics, history, social policy, ethnicity, and the history of ideas.
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Dr. Sowell taught economics, authored books and newspaper columns, and is a public speaker.
As with most newpaper columns, Dr. Sowell’s columns usually advanced a single subject. However, some of his columns were a collection of short observations or pithy points.
Those columns usually had the headline “Random Thoughts” and frequently started with the line: “Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene”
Nov. 01, 2016
Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?
Jan. 27, 2015
Some people see discrimination when schools punish black students more often than white students. But schools punish white students more often than Asian students. Lenders turn down black applicants for loans more often than white applicants, but they turn down whites more often than Asians. Most statistics on such things omit Asians, rather than spoil a politically correct story.
Dec. 30, 2014
Our schools and colleges are laying a guilt trip on those young people whose parents are productive, and who are raising them to become productive. What is amazing is how easily this has been done, largely just by replacing the word “achievement” with the word “privilege.”
There are few modest talents so richly rewarded, especially in politics and the media, as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.
Sept. 30, 2014
If you took all the mumbo-jumbo out of our educational institutions, how much would be left? Students could finish their education years earlier and end up knowing a lot more than they know now.
May 27, 2014
Will the Veterans Administration scandal wake up those people who have been blithely saying that what we need is a “single payer” system for medical care? Delays in getting to see a doctor have been a common denominator in government-run medical systems in England, Canada and Australia, among other places.
Feb. 11, 2014
If you think human beings are always rational, it becomes impossible to explain at least half of history.