Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author, whose books include Basic Economics. He is currently senior fellow at the Hoover Institution ...

‘People hang on to their money until they figure out what you’re going to do. And when a lot of people hang on to their money, you can get results such as you got during the Great Depression ...

Regarding “Notable & Quotable: Thomas Sowell on Tariffs” (April 4): Thanks to the Journal for reprinting the thoughts of a national treasure. Here is another gem from his book “Basic ...

With that in mind, the person I believe to be the most worthy of such a selection is 94-year-old economist Thomas Sowell. When I was a child of poverty, often living in majority-Black housing ...

Thomas Sowell was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem. As with many others in his neighborhood, Thomas Sowell left home early and did not finish high school. The next few years were ...

Sowell is devastating on the destruction wrought by affirmative action, as Gordon notes, recalling that Clarence Thomas was surprised to learn how little weight his degree from Yale Law School ...

Legendary economist Thomas Sowell weighed in on President Donald Trump's tariffs in an interview released Wednesday, saying that sweeping tariffs risk triggering a trade war and repeating the ...

Leaving the debate about current tariffs to other members of the chattering class, this column will highlight timeless teaching on the topic from economist Thomas Sowell, one of today’s most enl ...