For Thomas Sowell, economics, politics, and life are all questions of trade-offs. So too is photography, the lifelong hobby he developed while serving in a U.S. Marine Corps Combat Camera Division. In ...

Last week, Dr. Thomas Sowell–brilliant economist, erudite scholar, prolific and wide-ranging author–announced his retirement from writing his popular syndicated column. The announcement came with ...

How shall we remember 2015? Or shall we try to forget it? It is always hard to know when a turning point has been reached, and usually it is long afterward before we recognize it. However, if 2015 has ...

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 ...

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 ...

The economist and public intellectual Thomas Sowell turned 95 years old in June. Outside of national politicians and high-profile celebrities, few public figures are as well-known inside the halls of ...

While reading Jason Riley’s beautiful tribute to Thomas Sowell (“The Soul of Black Conservatism,” op-ed, May 29), I was sadly reminded of Dr. Sowell’s comments during an interview: “One of the reasons ...

Author and Hoover Institution senior fellow Thomas Sowell said on Tuesday that much of the left's ideology "falls apart like a house of cards" under scrutiny. “I think many, if not most, of the people ...

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 ...

Whereas academics and intellectuals tend to be a timid bunch, going along to get along, Sowell has consistently and confidently gone his own way. A telling conversation he recounted in his 2000 memoir ...