When the Soviets made private businesses illegal, says Powell, “that’s about as close as the world ever saw” to pure socialism.
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Observations on Today’s Political Situation in the U.S.
The ‘progressive’ left and ‘conservative’ right are two sides of a damaged coin. The two sides have differences, but they also have important elements in common, although these are manifested in somewhat different forms.
Thomas Sowell: From Marxism To The Free-Market
Government programs that are supposed to help minorities end up doing more harm than good.
When Reason is Out, Violence is In
What explains today’s bi-partisan violence? When reason is out, persuasion and peaceful assembly-protest also are out. What remains is emotionalism – and violence.
Will Trumpism Survive Trump Leaving Office or Getting Impeached?
I fear the answer is “Yes” based on the faith of his followers.
Twitter Permanently Bans Trump
Why Do Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Harry Reid Get a Pass?
The GOP Should Divorce Trump from the Republican Party
Republicans have to consign Donald Trump to a state of ignominy. There is no other hope if the Republican Party is to stand as an ideological counterweight to the statism of the left.
Selfishness Without a Self: Trump’s True Colors Revealed
The Republican Party nominated, worked to elect, then stood behind a man who is amoral and unhinged, a man who is the tribal lone wolf that Ayn Rand described in “Selfishness Without a Self.”
A Vote At The Crossroads: Thomas Sowell On The Georgia Special Election
Thomas Sowell On The Georgia Special Election
Government Force Sabotages Vaccine Delivery
The only reason that the commentators are bewailing the “staggering difficulties” of getting everyone vaccinated is that they never dream of putting the vaccine on the free market.
12 Times Lockdowners Were Wrong
This has been a year of astonishing policy failure. We are surrounded by devastation conceived and cheered by intellectuals and their political handmaidens.
The Sovietization of California
The left does not follow science; it follows scientists it agrees with and dismisses all other scientists as “anti-science.”
Private Charity versus the Political Grinches
End Government Paternalism and the Private Sector Will Do the Job
Media Saves Joe Biden — Just as It Saved Barack Obama
Whatever 2020 election interference was committed by China, Russia and Iran pales in comparison to the election interference routinely engaged in by our left-wing media,
President Donald Trump Should Pardon Edward Snowden
Snowden did a good thing. He deserves a pardon.
How a Laissez-faire Capitalist Society Deals with a Vaccine
Under real capitalism, there is no government policy at all regarding how people are to conduct themselves in a pandemic. With no barriers to innovation, production, and distribution, the pharmaceutical industry would be rocketing us into an almost disease-free future.
Video: A Q&A with Walter E. Williams, Economics Professor, George Mason University
Williams discusses his libertarian views and tells the story of how he came to be a substitute host for the nationally syndicated Rush Limbaugh radio.
Trump Won His Other Campaign — to Expose Media Bias
As to Trump’s campaign to expose the media’s blatant, often vicious anti-Republican bias so that much of America will never again trust it, Trump won. Huge.
Better Than Charity: Capitalism and Self-Interest
What helps the most people in the most efficient way is greedy, self-interested capitalism.
Thinking About Discrimination and Prejudice
Some of the confusion in thinking about matters of race stems from the ambiguity in the terms that we use. I am going to take a stab at suggesting operational definitions for a couple terms in our discussion of race.
Biden to ‘Racist’ Trump Voters: ‘Let’s Heal’
“The left, as a rule, does not want to hear thoughtful disagreement.”
Correct Diagnostics Needed: Leftism, Not Racism, is the Greatest Danger to Black Americans
Dr. Thomas Sowell has argued, “The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life.”
Elections and Legitimacy
Elections failed to prevent every recent American commander-in-chief from expanding and exploiting the dictatorial potential of the presidency.
Why U.S. Election Politics Breeds Divisive Fears and Angers
Michelle Obama’s words imply that if there is to be healing and uniting it means that all those who think the “wrong” way must come over and only think according to the anti-capitalist “progressive” worldview of those on “the left.”
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