All of Thomas Sowell’s “considerable learning” is front and center in his 2007 book A Conflict of Visions: Ideological ...

Economist Thomas Sowell criticizes public schools as insulated from accountability, citing teachers' unions and taxpayer funding as barriers to improvement in new podcast interview.

Prolific and award-winning economist Sowell presents an engaging and accessible collection of short essays culled from his books and columns. In his 30-some previous books, Sowell has addressed ...

“I’ve just come from seeing a dead boy – and you killed him.” Those were the words of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin (1924-1987) from a long-ago television appearance. Years after, ...

A heartbreaking social statistic is that children on welfare have only about half as many words per day directed at them as the children of working-class families- and less than one-third as many ...

If ever there was a time to make an outside-the-box pick for secretary of the Treasury, it is now. And while it might be seen as symbolic, it is well beyond well-deserved, and would be an inspired ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House thrust tariffs back into the public spotlight. The president has targeted tariffs at both friendly and adversarial trading partners. Reaction to Trump’s plans ...

That economists Thomas Sowell and the late Walter Williams have not received the Presidential Medal of Freedom borders on scandalous. The award, as well as the Congressional Gold Medal, is the highest ...

Under the headline “Costly Bill Seen as Saving Money,” the San Francisco Chronicle last week began a front-page story with these words: “Many people find it hard to understand how the health care ...