Thomas Sowell

Surrounded by crowds, President Woodrow Wilson throws out the first ball at a baseball game in Washington in this 1916 photo. (AP Photo)

A year of anniversaries

Thomas Sowell · December 30, 2014 5:45 pm

Grand juries that examine hard facts live in a different world from mobs who listen to rhetoric. (iStock Photo)

Are facts obsolete?

Thomas Sowell · December 30, 2014 5:45 pm

From left, Pastor Michael Durso, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City first lady Chirlane McCray visit a makeshift memorial Tuesday near the site where New York Police Department officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot and killed in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Who’s responsible?

Thomas Sowell · December 24, 2014 6:29 pm

Demonstrators from the groups CodePink and Witness Against Torture protest President Obama's choice of then-Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan to head the CIA, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, in front of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Tortured reasoning

Thomas Sowell · December 16, 2014 4:30 pm

Christmas shopping may be an especially welcome respite from the ugly events going on across the country. (iStock Photo)

Christmas Books

Thomas Sowell · December 9, 2014 7:01 pm

Alyson Reimer holds up a sign as she protests in response to police killings in Missouri and New York as Berkeley Police officers block a street in front of the police station in Berkeley, Calif., Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Is law optional?

Thomas Sowell · December 9, 2014 6:50 pm

Darius Crenshaw, left, and his sister Keona, both of Ferguson, Mo., take a selfie while standing in front of a burned down beauty salon from last night's riots, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Opinions versus facts

Thomas Sowell · December 1, 2014 9:43 pm

Jonathan Gruber, professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, participates in a Capitol Hill hearing on the overhaul of the heathcare system in Washington. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beware of our betters

Thomas Sowell · November 25, 2014 6:42 pm

Under the Obama administration, both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice have been leaning on public schools around the country to reduce what they call the "disproportionate" numbers of black male students who are punished for various offenses in schools. (iStock)

Racial quota punishment

Thomas Sowell · November 18, 2014 5:31 pm

If we are to go by evidence of social retrogression, liberals have wreaked more havoc on blacks than the supposed "legacy of slavery" they talk about. (iStock Photo)

A legacy of liberalism

Thomas Sowell · November 18, 2014 5:15 pm

President Obama looks upwards at the the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit plenary session at the International Convention Center, Yanqi, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014 in Beijing. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

What happened?

Thomas Sowell · November 11, 2014 5:12 pm

Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the sixth annual "Washington Ideas Forum" in Washington. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Voter fraud and voter ID

Thomas Sowell · November 3, 2014 9:15 pm