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 ...

Thomas Sowell was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem. As with many others in his neighborhood, Thomas Sowell left home early and did not finish high school. The next few years were ...

Economist and author Thomas Sowell told "Life Liberty & Levin" in an interview airing Sunday evening that the left's claim that America is beset by "systemic racism" has no definitive meaning and ...

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.

Thomas Sowell has been a consistent and uncompromising truth-teller. Finally, having written 13 books in the last decade alone (while maintaining his twice-(and sometimes more) ...

Until 1991, when Clarence Thomas was nominated and then confirmed to the Supreme Court, the most prominent black conservative in America was likely Thomas Sowell, the Chicago-trained economist and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this installment, Sowell discusses the recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action and his decades-long friendship with Justice Clarence Thomas. NR PLUS Politics & Policy The Wisdom of ...