Thomas Sowell

President-elect Donald Trump walks with Elon Musk before the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, in Boca Chica, Texas.

‘Trumpism’ is ideological anarchy — who will be its heir?

David Harsanyi · February 14, 2025 11:16 am

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) talks during a press conference to call for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza on Capitol Hill, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, in Washington.

Op-Ed: Voters welcome back The Squad

Washington Examiner · November 13, 2023 1:36 pm

Thomas Sowell is an American economist, author, and social commentator who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Magazine - Life & Arts

It doesn’t take Thomas Sowell long to dispatch social justice

Jack Elbaum · October 6, 2023 6:07 am

In this Sept. 14, 2014, file photo, protesters participate in a rally on Chicago's south side as labor organizers escalate their campaign raise the minimum wage for employees to $15 an hour.

Beltway Confidential

Job loss is not the only unintended consequence of minimum wage hikes

Jack Elbaum · July 26, 2023 5:11 pm

President Joe Biden speaks on the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action in college admissions in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Biden’s ‘trickle-down’ bogeyman

Jack Elbaum · June 30, 2023 9:43 am

Students from charter, private, parochial and home schools, participate in a school choice proponents rally Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., as prospects remain unclear for House and Senate bills that would expand programs to spend public money to pay for students to attend private schools.

Beltway Confidential

New Stanford study confirms educational advantages of charter schools

Jack Elbaum · June 14, 2023 5:36 pm

Beltway Confidential

Major League Baseball silences black, conservative Republicans

Christopher Tremoglie · August 23, 2022 6:42 pm

Beltway Confidential

Why did Facebook say a children’s book on Ronald Reagan is ‘disruptive’?

Quin Hillyer · January 4, 2022 5:31 pm

Magazine - Life & Arts

The enigma of Thomas Sowell

Park MacDougald · June 4, 2021 3:00 am

Thomas Sowell: Idea of ‘systemic racism’ a lie that has ‘no meaning’ and is reminiscent of Nazi propaganda

Andrew Mark Miller · July 13, 2020 9:01 am

Afternoon Links: The Unintended Consequences of Road Diets, How Lies Become Truth, and Jacob Wohl’s Hipster Brew

Jim Swift · November 26, 2018 10:54 pm

Thomas Sowell, America’s Greatest Public Intellectual, Says ‘Farewell’

Fred Barnes · December 27, 2016 9:00 pm