Thomas Sowell's Last Word?

American Thinker ^ | April 28, 2018 | Richard Kirk

[SaraJohnson]

I love Thomas Sowell.

[BradyLS]

He was well into his 60’s when I became aware of him. His protege Dr. Walter Williams will be with us awhile longer, but who else has the chops and clout of these two?

[BradyLS]

I’d say that your source referencing Sowell is in error.

[steve86]

The review or whatever it is above isn't worded correctly. It should have been:

"When the chances of an individual having any one of the five characteristics is two out of three...(in the applicable distribution)...then the chances of having all five is two-thirds raised to the fifth power or about one in eight".

[Thibodeaux]

You overlook the possible fact that there may be sowell followers in the cabinet including the President himself as a follower.

Perhaps the baton has been passed

[dynachrome]

I hope so.

[dsc]

” if the chances are two out of three that any person will have each characteristic”

I think he meant to say “if the chances are two out of three that any person will have any one of these characteristics...”

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

He was well into his 60’s when I became aware of him.

He was a late bloomer. He was a Marine - and a marxist, BTW - during the Korean War. He was a photographer for the Marines (and photography is his hobby in retirement). He didn’t go to college until later, and he was 30 before he did an analysis of the “minimum” (the true minimum being zero when you aren’t employed) wage.

When he figured out that the minimum wage law hurt low-earning people in general and blacks in particular, the scales fell away from his eyes and his naiveté toward government “help” dissipated. But his breakout “Knowledge and Decisions” didn’t hit until 1980, when he was about 50. That's when I first knew of him.

[BradyLS]

It says more about me than about him that I was late to learning about him. Glad we still have him with us and a library of his writings to learn from.

[YogicCowboy]

Pretty much no one I can recall.

I do not entirely agree with Sowell on certain issues, but I esteem him. I tend to agree more with Williams.

[csn vinnie]

When Dr. Sowell explains economics, it makes sense. It seems so logical that you wonder why most of the other experts never notice these things, or are incapable of explaining them.

[Crucial]

I think Trump reads a great deal.

[zeestephen]

LOL!

My “source” is the guy who wrote the book review.

[gigster]

Last Word? For a second there, I thought He died.

[foreverfree]

bump

[jazusamo]

Not hardly, pardner. :^)

[Pontiac]

Sowell further observes that fatherlessness clearly increases the likelihood that a person will end up in prison since a majority of prisoners "were raised with either one parent or no parent" – a domestic circumstance that applies to well over half of all black kids in the U.S.

Which is a fact that gores two of the Liberal’s sacred cows.

The Black race as unjustly oppressed and fathers as completely unnecessary.

[Pontiac]

Overall, Sowell's book is a protest against the unfounded assumption that "there would be no disparate outcomes unless there were disparate treatment." Sowell observes that this ideologically driven assumption "seems almost impervious to evidence."

Because it is an article of Democrat faith.

It is also a political weapon of mass destruction and this weapon has more than decimated the Black race in this country.

[Yardstick]

I always like it when Williams guest hosts Rush’s show and he has Sowell on. The Quest for Cosmic Justice and Vision of the Annointed were formative for me.

[cgbg]

Sowell is a wise man with great insights.

If anyone hasn’t read his works I would encourage them to do so.