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 ...

New York and Seattle have elected socialist mayors, and many young Americans express support for socialism in polls.

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 ...

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 ...

In these highlights from a 2011 interview with the Hoover Institution's Peter Robinson, economist Thomas Sowell talks about race and culture, income disparity, and education and academia. Video Images ...

Jason Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. The following is excerpted from Jason Riley’s new book, “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Sowell argues that ideology has replaced knowledge and that well-intentioned policies often harm the very people they are meant to help. The persistent illusions and delusions of ‘anointed’ ...

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 ...

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 ...