In 1965, he took a teaching position at Cornell. The college, he said, had lowered admission standards to diversify the student body, and most students admitted under affirmative action did not do ...

Thomas Sowell is not only one of the finest columnists in the business, he's a prolific author, a brilliant economist, and he has an incomparable knack for simplifying complex concepts that few ...

Few social scientists are able to distill their thoughts into such punchy lines as Thomas Sowell, the great economist whose ideas are celebrated in Jason L. Riley’s inspiring book "Maverick: A ...

Tax rate cuts have often been followed by higher tax revenues, not only in the United States, but also in India, Iceland and 19th-century German principalities, among other places.

Thomas Sowell — T homas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author, whose books include Basic Economics. He is currently senior fellow at the Hoover ...

What irony, that Thomas Sowell would write a column (Aug. 7: "Is thinking really obsolete?") about how others don't think well. His examples? That criticism of Israel's killing of civilians in ...

Thomas Sowell, renowned for his conservative philosophy, was once a believer in Marxism in his younger years; he told Mark Levin about his transition from left to right.

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Thomas Sowell makes an interesting point here. Prompted by Mark Perry, an old Thomas Sowell column makes the point that you can't really redistribute rivalrous goods like wealth. Well, OK, you can ...