Thomas Sowell

Students were taken from their classrooms in New York and paired up with other students of different socioeconomic backgrounds. (Thinkstock)

Using poor students as playthings is moral bankruptcy

Thomas Sowell · June 7, 2014 7:21 pm

A Hindustan Motors Ambassador is parked with other vehicles in Calcutta, India, Wednesday, May 2, 2007. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

The Ambassador and the post office

Thomas Sowell · June 3, 2014 2:42 pm

President Obama's foreign policy is to speak loudly and carry a little stick. They say talk is cheap, but loose talk by a President of the United States can be very expensive in both blood and treasure. (AP Photo)

Random thoughts on Veterans Affairs scandal, immigration reform, taxes and 2014 midterms

Thomas Sowell · May 27, 2014 3:00 pm

Many years ago, in upstate New York, there was a lady caught in a fierce snow storm that produced conditions called a "whiteout." That's when the snow is falling so thick and fast that all you can see in any direction is just sheer white. This lady wandered around in the storm, struggling to try to get home, but there was no way for her to know where home was.ÃÂ (Thinkstock Image)

The way out of poverty is similar to the way home in a snowstorm

Thomas Sowell · May 20, 2014 4:00 am

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New rape rules foster kangaroo courts on campus

Thomas Sowell · May 13, 2014 4:00 am

Fog rolls past the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. (AP/Jeff Chiu)

The height of utopianism on display in San Francisco height restriction battle

Thomas Sowell · May 13, 2014 4:00 am

This Dec. 10 1992, file photo shows Gary S. Becker, left, from the University of Chicago, receiving the 1992 Nobel Economics Prize from the hands of Sweden's King Carl Gustaf, during the Nobel awarding ceremony in the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden. Becker died Saturday, May 3, 2014, at Northwestern Hospital from complications after an extended illness. He was 83. (AP Photo/Tobbe Gustavsson,File)

Remembering Gary Becker, who deserved renown outside his fields of economics, sociology

Thomas Sowell · May 6, 2014 4:00 am

Dunbar High School's marching band performs outside the Lincoln Memorial in celebration of Emancipation Day in 2012. (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Will DC’s once-great Dunbar High School rise again as a city-wide selective school?

Thomas Sowell · May 1, 2014 4:00 am

Walton siblings, Jim, left, Alice, and Rob Walton, right, children of the late Wal-Mart Stores Inc. founder Sam Walton, appear on stage during the annual Wal-Mart shareholder's meeting in Fayetteville, Ark., June 5, 2009. (AP/April L. Brown)

Demonizing Walmart’s founding family over their support for educating the poor

Thomas Sowell · April 30, 2014 4:00 am

Attorney General Holder's threats of legal action against schools where minority students are disciplined more often than he wants are a much more sweeping and damaging blow to the education of poor and minority students across the country. (AP Photo)

Eric Holder’s crusade against schools that discipline minority students more

Thomas Sowell · April 29, 2014 4:00 am

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‘Income inequality’ stats don’t tell the full story

Thomas Sowell · April 23, 2014 4:00 am

Ukrainian tanks are transported from their base in Perevalne, outside Simferopol, Crimea on March 26. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Liberal approach to disarmament makes a victim of Ukraine

Thomas Sowell · April 22, 2014 4:00 am