When I was twelve years old, I had never heard of Thomas Sowell. I doubt any of the kids in my neighborhood had. For the vast majority of American students in K-12 education, opportunities to learn ...

STANFORD, Calif. | Two recent events -- one on the east coast and one on the west coast -- raise painful questions about whether we are really serious when we say that we want better education for ...

Whereas academics and intellectuals tend to be a timid bunch, going along to get along, Sowell has consistently and confidently gone his own way.

By my count I have some 30 volumes by the great Thomas Sowell. Also by my count, I have some 135 articles on my CultureWatch ...

In just a matter of days — perhaps next Monday — a decision will be made in Washington affecting the futures of millions of children in low-income communities, and in the very troubled area of race ...

STANFORD, Calif. | If anyone wanted to pick a time and place where the political left's avowed concern for minorities was definitively exposed as a fraud, it would be now -- and the place would be New ...

Letters from parents often complain of a sense of futility in trying to argue with their own children, who have been fed a steady diet of the politically correct vision of the world, from elementary ...

Anyone who has still not understood the utter cynicism of the Obama administration in general, and Attorney General Eric Holder in particular, should look at the Justice Department's latest ...

“The more I study the history of intellectuals, the more they seem like a wrecking crew dismantling civilization bit by bit, replacing what works with what sounds good.” – Thomas Sowell “Every time we ...

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