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Tag: Thomas Sowell

(1930- ) American economist, turned social theorist, political philosopher, and author. He is currently Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Confession

The political left’s attempts to silence ideas they cannot, or will not, debate are a confession of intellectual bankruptcy.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 9, 2021Categories speechTags Thomas Sowell

The cost of false equality

Trying to reduce economic inequality by increasing political inequality, which is essentially what Marxism is all about, has cost the lives of millions of innocent people under Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and others.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 4, 2020Categories economics, equalityTags Thomas Sowell

Beware the cure

Most of the problems of this country are not nearly as bad as the “solutions” — especially the solutions that politicians come up with during election years.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 29, 2020Categories demagoguesTags Thomas Sowell

Take off the mask

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Author Greg RavenPosted on September 25, 2020September 26, 2020Categories liberalismTags Thomas Sowell

Is reality optional?

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Author Greg RavenPosted on September 13, 2020Categories economicsTags Thomas Sowell

Artificial stupidity

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

Author Greg RavenPosted on July 17, 2020July 17, 2020Categories educationTags Thomas Sowell

You have to put in the work

No nation ever protested its way from poverty to prosperity or got there through rhetoric or bureaucracies.

Author Greg RavenPosted on July 13, 2020Categories prosperityTags Thomas Sowell

Boiling down ‘multiculturalism’

What “multiculturalism” boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture — and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

Author Greg RavenPosted on July 6, 2020Categories cultureTags Thomas Sowell

Totalitarian liberals

The totalitarian mindset behind the liberal vision shows through in innumerable ways. There are no institutions in America where free speech is more severely restricted than in our politically correct colleges and universities, dominated by liberals.

Author Greg RavenPosted on July 4, 2020Categories education, intolerance, speechTags Thomas Sowell

Government is not the solution

Some people seem to think that the answer to all of life’s imperfections is to create a government agency to correct them. If that is your approach, then go straight to totalitarianism. Do not pass “Go.” Do not collect $200.

Author Greg RavenPosted on June 26, 2020Categories collectivization, decentralization, external authorityTags Thomas Sowell

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