People from cultures that emphasize productive habits tend to advance. The reverse is also true.

It is especially painful for me, as an economist, to see that two small cities in Northern California — San Mateo and Burlingame — have rent control proposals on the ballot this election year. There ...

One of the most common arguments for allowing more immigration is that there is a "need" for foreign workers to do "jobs that Americans won't do," especially in agriculture. One of my most vivid ...

John E. LeMoult is a writer and retired attorney. He lives in Xenia. In a column published on Jan. 8, 2014, Thomas Sowell argued that the use of the term “trickle-down economics” by Bill DeBlasio, the ...

While we talk about democracy and equal rights, we seem increasingly to let both private and government decisions be determined by mob rule. There is nothing democratic about mob rule. It means that ...

One of the most common arguments for allowing more immigration is that there is a “need” for foreign workers to do “jobs that Americans won’t do,” especially in agriculture. One of my most vivid ...

"I was still a Marxist after taking Milton Friedman's course [at the University of Chicago]," says free market economist and social critic Thomas Sowell. "One summer in the government was enough to ...

New York’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio, in his inaugural speech, denounced people “on the far right” who “continue to preach the virtue of trickle-down economics.” According to de Blasio, “They believe ...

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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 ...