The Tea Party’s principles were clear. But their tactics can only be judged by the consequences.
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell has published a large volume of writing. His dozen books, as well as numerous articles and essays, cover a wide range of topics, from classic economic theory to judicial activism, from civil rights to choosing the right college. Please contact your local newspaper editor if you want to read the THOMAS SOWELL column in your hometown paper.
Obamacare: An Old ‘New’ Program To Establish a Government Monopoly In Health Insurance
Politicians love to play Santa Claus by handing out favors to voters, while depicting insurance companies as Scrooge when they raise insurance premiums to cover the costs of government mandates.
Throw the Rascals Out?: The Need For A One Term Limit
A one-term limit would simultaneously limit how long special interests could expect a pay-off from their campaign contributions. It would also limit, indeed eliminate, the need for millions of dollars of campaign contributions to stay in office.
Throw the Rascals Out?
The first step in limiting, and then scaling back, government itself must be limiting the time that anyone can remain in office — preferably limited to one term, to make it harder to become career politicians, a species we can well do without.
Race-Hustling Results: Polarization of American Society and Future Race Wars
More dangerous are the innumerable organized and unprovoked physical attacks on whites by young black gangs in shopping malls, on beaches and in other public places all across the country today.
Race-Hustling Results: Washington Redskins and “White Guilt”
The blind and dishonest political correctness of our media and educational institutions on racial issues today can eventually forfeit the confidence of Americans and give similar extremist groups their chance to ignite a race war in the United States. And once a race war starts, it can be virtually impossible to stop.
Race-Hustling Results
Some people try to explain why Asians, and Asian-Americans, succeed so well in education and in the economy by some special characteristics that they have. That may be true, but their success may also be due to what they do not have — namely “leaders” who tell them that the deck is so stacked against them that they cannot rise, or at least not without depending on “leaders.”
A Return to Keynes?
Under Calvin Coolidge, the ultimate in non-interventionist government, the annual unemployment rate got down to 1.8 percent. How does the track record of Keynesian intervention compare to that?
Inarticulate Republicans
If the continued existence of mathematics depended on the ability of the Republicans to defend the proposition that two plus two equals four, that would probably mean the end of mathematics and of all the things that require mathematics. Republican Speaker of the...
Who Shut Down the Government?
The money voted by the House of Representatives covered everything that the government does, except for ObamaCare. If Senator Reid and President Obama refuse to accept the money required to run the government, because it leaves out the money they want to run ObamaCare, that is their right. But that is also their responsibility.
Destroying Household Jobs
Despite evidence from around the world that minimum wage laws can price low-skilled workers out of jobs, the U.S. Department of Labor is planning to extend minimum wage coverage to domestic workers, such as maids or those who drop in from time to time to do a...
High Risk, Low Yield
The time, effort and credibility that Republicans are investing in trying to defund ObamaCare is a high risk, low yield investment.
Minimum Wage Madness: Part II
Labor unions have been supporters of minimum wage laws in countries around the world, since these laws price non-union workers out of jobs.
Minimum Wage Madness
Countries with minimum wage laws almost invariably have higher rates of unemployment than countries without minimum wage laws.
Syria and Obama: Part II
Chickens are coming home to roost for Barack Obama, both at home and overseas.
Syria and Obama
How many Americans have learned to distinguish between Obama’s soaring words and his sorry record?
Serious About Syria?
“Military action” is a polite phrase for killing people. It would be nice to believe that this has some larger purpose than saving Barack Obama from political embarrassment.
Unintended Consequences of Increased Minority Homeownership
One of the many unintended consequences of the political crusade for increased homeownership among minorities, and low-income people in general, has been a housing boom and bust that left many foreclosed homes that had to be rented, because there were no longer enough...
A Poignant Anniversary
The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, and of the Reverend Martin Luther King’s memorable “I have a dream” speech, is a time for reflections — some inspiring, and some painful and ominous.
A Truly Great Phony
Obama’s job is to keep the true believers believing.
Reality Versus Mirages in Egypt
Barack Obama’s Middle East interventions have replaced stable and neutral despots in Egypt and Libya with anti-Western despots and chaos.
Subscribe for free.
Read by students, professors, and citizens, Capitalism Magazine provides over 9,000 free to read articles and essays from pro-reason, individual rights perspective.
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.