Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Thomas Sowell, economics, politics, and life are all questions of trade-offs. So too is photography, the lifelong hobby he ...

Thomas Sowell is an American economist, author, and social commentator who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. | (CHUCK KENNEDY/KRT/Newscom) The assumption upon which the entire social ...

Reviews are starting to come in for the intellectual life of Thomas Sowell, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell by Jason L. Riley, the longtime Wall Street Journal writer and Manhattan Institute ...

The following is excerpted from Jason Riley’s new book, “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell,” about the iconoclastic economist. The book is available here. The economist Thomas Sowell ...

Today, most people no longer get their news from the evening newscasts on ABC, CBS and NBC. News aggregators like Microsoft, ...

Thirty-eight years ago, Reason contributor Thomas Hazlett and Senior Editor Manny Klausner sat down with University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) economist and social scientist Thomas Sowell for a ...

I’m just getting around to reading the book published last year “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell” by Jason L. Riley. It has reminded me of a remark Bill Ellis made in the Times-Call a couple of ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Despite how persuasive the words of John Rawls and other ‘social justice’ advocates may be in the world of words, demonstrated facts in the world of reality raise the crucial question as to whether ...

Hoover Institution economist Thomas Sowell has long made a case that it is not racism that makes Blacks on average poorer than other Americans. Data concerning Nigerian immigrants and their children ...

College Students Are Still Finding New Ways to Marginalize Jews on Campus The British Equality Trap: Equal Pay for Unequal Work Virginia Democrats Get Their Comeuppance Audio By Carbonatix Jason Riley ...