About Thomas Sowell: Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author.
Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.
Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
