Posted on 06/30/2020 5:03:25 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Today is Thomas Sowell’s 90th birthday, and I want to wish him a happy one.
Sowell may also be happy today that he’s been retired for several years, because chronicling our current mess is not fun, although I would dearly love to read or hear what he has to say about it. For many decades, Sowell was one of the most brilliant, clearest, no-nonsense voices in America, although it was mostly the right who listened to him.
Thomas Sowell was also the writer who influenced me most during my political change. Until I read his books about seventeen years ago (I think the first one I encountered may have been The Vision of the Anointed, but another extremely important one for me was The Quest for Cosmic Justice), I just had a vague and growing dissatisfaction with the left, the Democrats, and especially the press. I had no framework in which to place those perceptions, no overview that made sense of them. Sowell provided that. I had no sooner read just a few pages of his thoughts when I breathed a sigh of relief. At last! Someone who made sense. And to think, he’d already been writing for many years at that point and I’d never before heard of him.
I’ve read many of his books since, including his autobiography. Sowell is what used to be called a rugged individualist. He went his own way, and didn’t suffer fools gladly. His work should be known by so many more people than it is. I hope he’s doing well, and I want to thank him from the bottom of my heart.
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I give that book to people as a gift...
Happy Birthday Dr. Sowell.
You are a national treasure.
The mayor is just buying cover and diversion for her crimes aiding and abetting the criminal Marxists.
Hard to believe he’s 90. I would have voted Thomas Sowell for president at one time. Great man.
Good guy
Happy Birthday!
The Hoover Institute is located on the Stanford University campus. Must drive the libs crazy.
I wrote him at the Hoover Institute once in the late 80’s to tell him how much I missed his column after our local liberal rag canceled him.
He typed me a beautiful response with all the details about why he was canceled. They claimed his facts were wrong on a certain editorial. He showed the editor his facts were correct but they did not take him back.
After all, who is better at giving liberals heartburn than Thomas Sowell.
Long may he live.
Sorry. Wrong thread.
Happy Birthday Dr. Sowell!
Wrong thread my FRiend.
Thomas Sowells got Soul. Happy Birthday to a great and gentle man!
Happy birthday to a great man and a great thinker!
(He might come here and see this—one can always hope!)
Today is also MIL’s 90th birthday!
Happy Birthday Dr. Sowell!
Happy Birthday to a great American!
Happy Birthday Mr. Sowell. You have been an inspiration to all races for decades. We are blesses to have you in our lives.
Happy Birthday Dr. Sowell!
Thomas Sowell is brilliant.
Happy Birthday, Dr. Sowell. Wish you were the Chief Justice of the United States.
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