Thank You, Professor Sowell

Townhall.com ^ | December 28, 2016 | Michelle Malkin

[rlmorel]

See the two books in post above...both are excellent reads. Well written, factual, very readable, and entertaining to boot.

Great man.

[TheNext]

Sowell FAKE ECONOMIST

Sowell is a special rights, Free Trade wacko.

What foreign money seeks privileges we do not get, that Sowell calls economics??

Sowell keeps denying the many decades of U.S. history.

[cyclotic]

I’ve only read Basic Economics. 600 pages of economics and not one chart or graph.

In college, I found economics incredibly difficult. I discovered Dr. Sowell and Dr. Williams soon after graduating, and between reading them and gaining actual life experience (home ownership, employment, marriage, responsibility) I found the concepts of economics to be brutally simple.

I hope that he enjoys his retirement and if he gets bored, I wouldn’t mind an occasional random Thoughts column.

[Our man in washington]

I was also a college Marxist. Reading Sowell turned me into a conservative—which also helped me grow up. Thank you, Dr. Sowell!

[jazusamo]

Thank you for posting Malkin's piece on Dr. Sowell, Kas. It's excellent!

*PING*
Thomas Sowell

[rockinqsranch]

Wonderful article by Michelle Malkin. Thanks for the ping jaz. Appreciate it. Sending the link off to many on the ol’ email list.

[Kaslin]

Jas, you’re very welcome

[Kaslin]

[Gene Eric]

And thank you, jaz, for invariably bringing Professor Sowell’s thoughts to the FReeper foreground!

[Gene Eric]

>> I was also a college Marxist

My conservative libertarianism hasn’t changed a degree since my early teen years many, many decades ago. I’m curious what you once found inspirational about Marxism.

[Our man in washington]

I was raised a liberalism and took some economics classes. I decided that liberalism didn’t work in a world with many consumers and producers who each had a different interest. But I didn’t want to give up my liberalism. I decided the only way out was to decide that the whole system was structurally flawed, so I embraced Marxism. I also had the typical narcissism and immaturity of youth and liked the way Marxism put intellectuals (which I considered myself to be) on a pedestal.

But then I started earning a paycheck and watched how people actually behaved I moved back to liberalism and then became a moderate and finally a conservative.

[Gene Eric]

Insight appreciated.

The universities are replete with predatory professors that aim to steal the student’s individualism. Good that economics helped to set you free.

[GOPJ]

Among the left's most corrosive ideas is the concept of perpetual and permanent racial victimhood, which social engineers pretend to rectify through federally mandated, taxpayer-subsidized preferential policies. Sowell's groundbreaking academic analyses of these programs in the U.S. and around the world exposed how elites profit mightily at the expense of the alleged beneficiaries of government-coerced affirmative action.

The grand rhetoric of diversity masks the true intent and actual impact of current racially discriminatory "solutions" to past racial discrimination: solidifying the power of the few over the many. As Sowell put it succinctly in one of the first pieces of his I came across in the journal "The Public Interest":

"Live people are being sacrificed because of what dead people did."

Sowell was so right on this point... one I didn't understand until I took the time to read Sowell over and over and slowly started realizing I was an idiot to back affirmative action= even in the early years. Gads, he's a national treasure... Hopefully he'll get bored with taking beautiful artistic pictures... and sometimes come back to writing...or not. He deserves every happiness the world has to offer.

[jazusamo]

He surely is a national treasure and like you hope he’ll write on issues from time to time. I’m keeping the ping list and will use it if and when he does.