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 ...

At age nine, Thomas and his great-aunt moved to Harlem, New York, and frequently stayed in other people’s apartments due to ...

Thomas Sowell is an American economist, author, and social commentator who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. | (CHUCK KENNEDY/KRT/Newscom) The assumption upon which the entire social ...

As the nation prepared for its 249th birthday, Thomas Sowell, the nation’s greatest living economist, turned 95. That milestone is cause for reflection in California, Washington, D.C., and all across ...

Jason Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. The following is excerpted from Jason Riley’s new book, “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell,” ...

I’m just getting around to reading the book published last year “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell” by Jason L. Riley. It has reminded me of a remark Bill Ellis made in the Times-Call a couple of ...

As I mentioned last month in an homage to one of his regular features, my intellectual hero is Thomas Sowell. Today is Dr. Sowell's 89th birthday. Since turning 80, he has published Intellectuals and ...

Sarah H. Weaver is a graduate student at Hillsdale College and a freelance writer. In an interview in 2018, the economist Thomas Sowell had a concise answer when podcaster and commentator Dave Rubin ...

Hoover Institution economist Thomas Sowell has long made a case that it is not racism that makes Blacks on average poorer than other Americans. Data concerning Nigerian immigrants and their children ...

If ever there was a time to make an outside-the-box pick for secretary of the Treasury, it is now. And while it might be seen as symbolic, it is well beyond well-deserved, and would be an inspired ...

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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’ ...