Why are college campus rapists not reported to the police and prosecuted in a court of law?
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.
The Height of Utopianism
Height restrictions have serious economic implications that are not immediately obvious to those who do not look beyond rhetoric about “saving” this or “preserving” that.
Gary Becker (1930-2014)
Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker was internationally renowned within the economics profession, but was not nearly as well known among the general public as he deserved to be.
The Moral Bankruptcy of Our Educational System
Too many of today’s “educators” see students as a captive audience for them to manipulate and propagandize.
Will Dunbar Rise Again?
What is different about the history of Dunbar is that, from its founding in 1870 as the first public high school in the country for black students, until the mid 1950s, it was an outstanding academic success.
Demonizing the Helpers: Private Schools
Teachers’ unions and others who defend the public school establishment decry competing schools, on grounds that they are somehow undermining the public schools.
Politics Versus Education
Of all the cynical frauds of the Obama administration, few are so despicable as sacrificing the education of poor and minority children to the interests of the teachers’ unions.
The High Cost of Liberalism: Part III
“Poverty” is in the eye of the statisticians — more specifically, the government statisticians who define what constitutes “poverty,” and who are unlikely to define it in ways that might jeopardize the massive welfare state that they are part of.
The High Cost of Liberalism: Part II
Nations that disarm increasing the chances of being attacked by nations that do not disarm.
The High Cost of Liberalism: Part I
Much as many liberals like to put guilt trips on other people, they seldom seek out, much less acknowledge and take responsibility for, the bad consequences of their own actions.
Statistical Frauds: War on Women
The “war on women” political slogan is in fact a war against common sense.
Taxing By Inflation
If you put $1,000 in your piggy bank in 1960 and took it out to spend in 2000, you would discover that your money had, over time, lost 80 percent of its value.
A Halo for Left Wing “Special Interests”
Those unfamiliar with political rhetoric may not know that “special interests” mean people who support your opponents.
How Foreign Is Our Policy?: Part II
Critics have seen Obama’s repeated sacrifices of American national interests as deliberate.
How Foreign Is Our Policy?
Most of Barack Obama’s foreign policy decisions since becoming president are consistent with this mindset. He has acted repeatedly as a citizen of the world, even though he was elected to be President of the United States.
Republicans and Blacks
Republicans have failed to explain why the minimum wage laws that Democrats support are counterproductive for blacks.
A Tiger of a Book: The Triple Package
“The Triple Package” is a book that tells us much that we all need to know about America — especially if we want to keep the welfare state ideology from destroying the American Dream.
The Left Versus Minorities
Charter schools take power from politicians and bureaucrats, letting parents decide where their children will go to school. That is obviously offensive to those on the left, who think that our betters should be making our decisions for us.
Freedom Is Not Free
As long as millions of Americans vote on the basis of who gives them free stuff, look for their freedom — and all our freedom — to be eroded away, bit by bit.
The ‘Fairness’ Fraud
Envy, resentment and hopelessness that progressives preach, and the welfare state they promote, are among the factors keeping people down.
Pros and Cons of Capital Gains Taxes
Reducing investors’ incentives to take risks is reducing the jobs their investments are likely to create.
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