New York and Seattle have elected socialist mayors, and many young Americans express support for socialism in polls.

I’m just getting around to reading the book published last year “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell” by Jason L. Riley. It has reminded me of a remark Bill Ellis made in the Times-Call a couple of ...

Thomas Sowell is an American economist, author, and social commentator who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. | (CHUCK KENNEDY/KRT/Newscom) The assumption upon which the entire social ...

Prolific and award-winning economist Sowell presents an engaging and accessible collection of short essays culled from his books and columns. In his 30-some previous books, Sowell has addressed ...

In a reasonable world, Thomas Sowell’s life would be celebrated in the same way we honor Frederick Douglass, George Washington Carver, and Marian Anderson—as a black hero, born into a genuinely ...

We keep hearing that "black lives matter," but they seem to matter only when that helps politicians to get votes, or when that slogan helps demagogues demonize the police. The other 99 percent of ...

If ever there was a time to make an outside-the-box pick for secretary of the Treasury, it is now. And while it might be seen as symbolic, it is well beyond well-deserved, and would be an inspired ...

Under the headline “Costly Bill Seen as Saving Money,” the San Francisco Chronicle last week began a front-page story with these words: “Many people find it hard to understand how the health care ...

Trump DOJ Bows to Inevitability and Drops the Powell Probe The Powell Investigation Was Everything Wrong with Trump’s Second Term Audio By Carbonatix In this AIER piece, Thomas Chatterton Williams ...

“I’ve just come from seeing a dead boy – and you killed him.” Those were the words of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin (1924-1987) from a long-ago television appearance. Years after, ...

Jimmy Kimmel Being Unfunny Isn’t a Matter for Government How Inflation and Tariffs Impoverish People Differently The Indomitable Trump At the Old Parkland Conference in Dallas, an astounding lineup of ...