Posted on 03/11/2019 12:26:06 PM PDT by Perseverando
“Even the best things come to an end,” wrote Thomas Sowell in a December, 2016, column headlined “Farewell.” At the age of 86, the great economist had decided to stop writing his column and “spend less time following politics and more time on my photography.” Since then, Sowell has been rather quiet, but current political trends have prompted him to re-emerge.
“Socialism is a wonderful sounding idea,” Sowell recently told Fox Business. “It’s only as a reality that it’s disastrous.” A former Marxist, Sowell began to see the difference between reality and rhetoric. “When you see people starving in Venezuela and fleeing in the neighboring countries and realize that this is a country that once had the world’s largest oil reserves, you realize that that’ve ruined a really good prospect with ideas that sounded good but didn’t turn out well.”
Those who wonder who this guy is might take a cue from NBA great Charles Barkley, who in 2000 quipped that “the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.” As it happens, the best economist is also black, and his name is Thomas Sowell. He dropped out of high school and served as a photographer in the Marines during the Korean War. He was the first in his family to attend college and earned a BA from Harvard, a master’s from Columbia and a PhD from the University of Chicago.
The Hoover Institution scholar has probed the world of ideas in books such as Basic Economics, Economic Facts and Fallacies, and Wealth, Poverty and Politics. He is also the author of The Economics and Politics of Race, Ethnic America, Affirmative Action Around the World, and the 1985 Marxism: Philosophy and Economics. Sowell’s conservative economics and criticism of affirmative action have drawn vicious
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First off you're assuming he's black. Ask any black person what the first thing they'd do as preezee. Bunghole dindoit!
Credit where due, thank the alphabets of tyranny, and their puppets for the past 6 decades!
Dr. Sowell won’t last forever, but his books and work will live on. :-)
“with a smile and a bit of salsa dancing on a rooftop”
I know salsa dancing. And that was no salsa dancing!
bkmk
I guess the numbers of Americans pushing for socialism is too damn high!
I am glad he is back; he has been sorely missed.
But AOC has a very good chance. Even Dr. Sowell can’t fix stupid, and it’s spreading like mumps and measles are, currently.
Still, a win for America
Another Free Traitor™ so who cares?
The most overused term on this forum is “NEVERTRUMP”. Anyone who disagrees with Trump on even a small minority of issues is a “never Trumper”
There are really not that many never Trumpers left and the ones like Kristol, Hillyer etc have lost their minds anyway so not even worth a second thought.
Don’t be stupid.
Yes, but he hardly could have endorsed with fainter praise:
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/10/28/sowell-choose-trump-hes-much-easier-to-impeach/
Ping to the Dr. Sowell list jazusamo.
That was a great show.
Many of us were skeptical early on. But we voted for him and were pleasantly surprised.
Doesn’t make any of us “never Trumper’s” then OR now. But it’s become common practice on this forum that anyone who has so much as a minor criticism of Donald Trump is a “never Trumper”. It’s fallacious and annoying.
I totally agree with you on that.
The same happened during the Bush years.
It is not doing Trump any favors for his base to just roll over and be happy with every betrayal of his platform and promises that Javanka can slip in on us.
Yep, I remember that as well.
Thank you, Dr Sowell!
Glad he is back.
I would love to see Mark Levin do an hour interview with Dr. Sowell.
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