Word games are just one of the ways of silencing politically incorrect ideas, instead of debating them.
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.
Gun Control Laws Protect Criminals By Disarming Their Law Abiding Victims
The great bulk of the studies show that gun control laws do not in fact control guns. On net balance, they do not save lives but cost lives.
Who Lost Iraq?
What lessons might we learn from the whole experience of the Iraq war?
Paying the Price for Being Soft on Crime
Innocent men, women and children — most of them black — will pay with their lives in New York, as they have in Baltimore and elsewhere.
The Federal Reserve: Promises vs Track Record
The biggest deflation in the history of the country came after the Fed was founded, and that deflation contributed to the Great Depression of the 1930s. As for bank failures, they reached levels unheard of before there was a Federal Reserve System.
Why Politicians Like To Buy Votes With Pensions and “Improve Budgets” By Cutting Military Spending
Creating pensions that offer generous retirement benefits wins votes in the present by promising spending in the future. Promises cost nothing in the short run — and elections are held in the short run, long before the pensions are due.
Multiculturalism and the Welfare State vs. Economic Mobility
In utter disregard to facts, so-called “social scientists” do studies which conclude that America is no longer a land of opportunity, and that upward mobility is a “myth.”
Race, Politics and Lies
Non-judgmental subsidies of counterproductive lifestyles are treating people as if they were livestock, to be fed and tended by others in a welfare state — and yet expecting them to develop as human beings have developed when facing the challenges of life themselves.
Taxing Society’s “Lottery Winners” To Feed Obama’s Nihilistic Power Lust
The real question is whether the investment of wealth is likely to be done better by those who created that wealth in the first place or by politicians.
Europe’s Antitrust Assault on Google
Since people can search through other sources besides Google, it is not at all clear why Google cannot run its own operation for its own benefit, while others run their operations for their own benefit.
Chaos in the Primaries
Who will rescue us all from another Clinton versus Bush election?
The New Inquisition (Against Scientists Who Disagree With The State)
The idea that you can tell whether a scientist — or anybody else — is “objective” by who is financing that scientist’s research is nonsense.
The Iran ‘Agreement’ Charade
Barack Obama seems ready to throw Israel to the wolves, for the sake of another worthless agreement.
Obama and Iran: Etiquette Versus Annihilation
In Obama’s vision, as a citizen of the world, there may be no reason why Iran should not have nuclear weapons when other nations have them.
Who Trashes Liberal Arts?
Liberal professors have trashed the liberal arts, by converting so many liberal arts courses into indoctrination centers for left-wing causes and fads, instead of courses where students learn how to weigh conflicting views of the world for themselves.
What Has Hillary Clinton Ever Accomplished?
Hillary Clinton became an iconic figure by feeding the media and the left the kind of rhetoric they love.
Rule of Law Trumps Majority Rule in Singapore: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015)
At a time when other Third World countries were setting up government-controlled economies and blaming their poverty on “exploitation” by more advanced industrial nations, Lee Kuan Yew promoted a market economy, welcomed foreign investments, and made Singapore’s childre…
Ruinous ‘Compassion’
Minimum wage laws reduce employment opportunities for the young and the unskilled of any age.
Two Warnings: Churchill and Netanyahu
Winston Churchill understood that military deterrence was what preserved peace.
The ‘Disparate Impact’ Racket
Blacks are far more statistically “over-represented” among basketball stars in the NBA than among people stopped by police in Ferguson.
On The “Pay Gap” Between Men and Women
The “gender gap” is not nearly as big as the honesty gap.
Thomas Sowell’s Random Thoughts for March 2015
Random thoughts on the passing scene…
Giuliani Versus Obama
Barack Obama’s campaign promise to “fundamentally change the United States of America” hardly suggests love.
Damaging Admissions
Admitting students strictly on the basis of their academic qualifications, which might seem to be common sense, is rejected by many college admissions committees.
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