For Thomas Sowell, economics, politics, and life are all questions of trade-offs. So too is photography, the lifelong hobby he developed while serving in a U.S. Marine Corps Combat Camera Division. In ...

Back in the 1960s, as large numbers of black students were entering a certain Ivy League university for the first time, someone asked a chemistry professor — off the record — what his response to them ...

Thomas Sowell turned 91 this week. One suspects his face never catches up to his age. But long ago his behavior betrayed an inner-directed curmudgeon decades older than his birth certificate. Jason ...

The assumption upon which the entire social justice vision rests is that people and groups would achieve relatively similar outcomes if it weren’t for the singular factor of “discrimination by ...

The Administration Isn’t as Blind to Putin’s Ambitions as They Pretend New York’s Death Wish: Abandoning the Most Vulnerable to Assisted Suicide The Odious Champions of Western Civilization Seize on ...

When my kids were young, they would often ask “do I have to?” I would tell them no,; the only thing they had to do is die. I believe in telling it like it is. I get that the Standard Examiner wants to ...

Author and Hoover Institution senior fellow Thomas Sowell said on Tuesday that much of the left's ideology "falls apart like a house of cards" under scrutiny. “I think many, if not most, of the people ...

With all the talk about taxing the rich, we hear very little talk about taxing the poor. Yet the marginal tax rate on someone living in poverty can sometimes be higher than the marginal tax rate on ...

John Stossel is the creator of Stossel TV videos, and author of "No They Can't! Why Government Fails—But Individuals Succeed." Joe Biden says he’ll “advance racial equity” by making “bold investments” ...

As I mentioned last month in an homage to one of his regular features, my intellectual hero is Thomas Sowell. Today is Dr. Sowell's 89th birthday. Since turning 80, he has published Intellectuals and ...

Is Trump Following the Obama Drone Strike Model? Trump Puts Consumers Back in the Driver’s Seat Audio By Carbonatix Jason Riley narrates an excellent new documentary about one of the greatest thinkers ...