The Gun Control Farce
The facts are too plain to be ignored. Moreover, the consequences are too dangerous to law-abiding citizens, whose lives are put in jeopardy on the basis of fact-free assumptions...
About: Thomas Sowell
Posts by Thomas Sowell
Will Orlando Change Anything?
However great the shock of the massacre in Orlando, it is only a matter of time before we start hearing again the fact-free dogma that "diversity is our strength."...
Is Personal Responsibility Obsolete?: Part II
Even some conservatives and libertarians are coming up with proposals for more "efficient" versions of the welfare state — namely direct cash grants for life to virtually all adults, instead...
Is Personal Responsibility Obsolete?
Relieving people from the responsibilities and challenges of life is doing them no favor. Nor is it a favor to society at large. ...
Socialism for the Uninformed
Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard...
Commencement Season
This is the season of college Commencement speeches — an art form that has seldom been memorable, but has increasingly become toxic in recent times. ...
Dry Rot in Academia
Today one can literally go from kindergarten to becoming a graduate student seeking a Ph.D., without ever hearing a vision of the world that conflicts with the vision of...
Supreme Hypocrisy
Currently there is much indignation being expressed by Democrats because the Republican-controlled Senate refuses to hold confirmation hearings on President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court, to fill the...
Black and White, Left and Right
Much is made of the fact that liberals and conservatives see racial issues differently, which they do. But these differences have too often been seen as simply those on...
Random Thoughts
The presidential election prospects for the Democrats are so bad this year that only the Republicans can save them — as Republicans have saved them before. ...
Paranoid Politics
Amid all the media analyses of the prospects of each of the candidates in both political parties, there is remarkably little discussion of the validity — or lack of...
The Lure of Socialism
Who would not want to live in a world where college was free, along with many other things, and where government protected us from the shocks of life and...
Toxic Words
During this election year, we are destined to hear many words that are toxic in the way they misrepresent reality and substitute fantasies that can win votes. One of...
Random Thoughts
The best New Year's Resolution I ever made was to stop trying to reason with unreasonable people. That may be especially valuable during an election year. ...
The Demand for Villains
The latest tempest in a teapot controversy is over a lack of black nominees for this year's Academy Awards in Hollywood. ...
Do Emotions Trump Facts?
Those of us who like to believe that human beings are rational can sometimes have a hard time trying to explain what is going on in politics. ...
Obama: Showman-in-Chief
Those who have been marveling at Donald Trump's political showmanship were given a reminder of who is the top showman of them all, when President Barack Obama went on...
Computerized Products: Complicating the Obvious
Engineers who design computerized products and services seem to have an almost fanatical determination to avoid using plain English. ...
The Busybody Left
The political left has been trying to run other people's lives for centuries. So we should not be surprised to see the Obama administration now trying to force neighborhoods...
Attacking the Truth: Part II
The case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court, involving racial double standards in admissions to the University of Texas at Austin, has an Alice-in-Wonderland quality that has been all...