Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author, whose books include Basic Economics. He is currently senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford ...

As the nation prepared for its 249th birthday, Thomas Sowell, the nation’s greatest living economist, turned 95. That milestone is cause for reflection in California, Washington, D.C., and all across ...

News that Harvard University is considering starting a conservative think tank is being met with skepticism and derision by ...

Though Thomas Sowell had been a regular contributor to newspapers in the late '70s and early '80s, he did not begin his career as a newspaper columnist until 1984. George F.

Thomas Sowell, renowned for his conservative philosophy, was once a believer in Marxism in his younger years; he told Mark Levin about his transition from left to right.

Yet, economist Thomas Sowell says, “I haven’t been able to find a single country in the world where policies advocated for Blacks in the United States lifted any people out of poverty. ...

By Thomas Sowell 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 ...

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook; ...

I knew Thomas Sowell was getting on in years — so far on in fact as to be 86. But it was still a jolt to read in Tuesday’s TAS that he is retiring from his long-running syndicated column. With ...

F or 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.