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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Posts by Thomas Sowell
Stormy Weather and Politics
It was refreshing to see meteorologists apologize for their dire — and wrong — predictions of an unprecedented snow storm that they had said would devastate the northeast. Unfortunately, we...
Obama Versus America
In his recent trip to India, President Obama repeated a long-standing pattern of his — denigrating the United States to foreign audiences. He said that he had been discriminated...
“Diversity” in Action
We cannot simply let in everyone who wants to come to America, or there will be no America to come to. Cultures matter — and not all cultures are...
The ‘Equality’ Racket
If one racial or ethnic group has a lower income than another, that is automatically called "discrimination" by many people in politics, the media and academia. ...
Random Thoughts
Now that Barack Obama is ruling by decree, he seems more like a king than a president. Maybe it is time we change the way we address him. "Your...
A Year of Anniversaries
Anniversaries are opportunities to look back at historic turning points, compare the rhetoric of the time with the reality that we now know unfolded — and to learn hard...
Should Grand Juries Respond to Mobs and the Media — or the Facts?
Some of us, who are old enough to remember the old television police series Dragnet, may remember Sgt. Joe Friday saying, "Just the facts, ma'am." But that would be...
The High Cost of Playing the Race Card
The cold-blooded murder of two New York City policemen as they sat in their car is not only an outrage but also a wake-up call. It shows, in the...
Is Law Optional?
Do we want people punished, based on other people's preconceptions, rather than on the facts of the individual case? ...
Ferguson Opinions Versus Ferguson Facts
Everyone seems to have an opinion about the tragic events in Ferguson, Missouri. But, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say, "You're entitled to your own opinion but you're...
Beware of Our Betters
Jonathan Gruber's notion that the people are "stupid" is not fundamentally different from what Barack Obama said to his fellow elite leftists in San Francisco, when he derided ordinary...
Racial Quota Punishment
There are now racial quota limits for punishment in the Minneapolis schools. On the surface, this may look like a favor to blacks. But only on the surface. Anyone with common...
Legacy of Slavery vs. Legacy of Liberalism
If we are to go by evidence of social retrogression, liberals have wreaked more havoc on blacks than the supposed "legacy of slavery" they talk about. ...
The Elections: What Happened?
Just what happened last week on election day? And what is going to happen in the years ahead? ...
Voter Fraud and Voter I.D.
One of the biggest voter frauds may be the idea promoted by Attorney General Eric Holder and others that there is no voter fraud, that laws requiring voters to...
Predatory Journalism
Editorial demagoguery against "predatory" lending might well be called predatory journalism — taking advantage of other people's ignorance of economics to score ideological points. ...
Irresponsible ‘Education’
Turning schools and colleges into indoctrination centers is a major and reckless disservice to them and to American society, which is vulnerable as all human societies have always been,...
Late-Talking Children
Anyone who knows what anxiety, and sometimes anguish, parents go through when they have a child who is still not talking at age two, three or even four, can...