[Kaslin]

A great tribute to Thomas Sowell by another great man Walter E. Williams

[FreedomPoster]

I’m going to take this opportunity to recommend his:

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
https://smile.amazon.com/Vision-Anointed-Self-Congratulation-Social-Policy/dp/046508995X

The book is almost 25 years old, and still incredibly relevant and insightful.

[HighSierra5]

Too bad they’re a minority of a minority.

[Susquehanna Patriot]

There is no doubt ... Thomas Sowell is a great man, a great American. Influenced me in the early 1980s, and I have never looked back.

Walter Williams falls into that category too.

[Freee-dame]

Thomas Sowell , Walter Williams bump

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[ought-six]

“A great tribute to Thomas Sowell by another great man Walter E. Williams.”

That’s a fact.

[suthener]

In a culture that truly values intelligence these guys would be celebrities.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Hear, hear. Here’s to a much longer life for Dr. Sowell.

[sima_yi]

In my book, Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest economist-philosophers of our age,...

Or any other age, as well

[mellow velo]

b f l ..

[cyclotic]

Dr. Williams and Dr. Sowell are two of my favorite Americans. Sowell is probably the deepest thinker in America.

Oh wait, they are both black men so I’m supposed to hate them.

My daughters best friend is married to a black guy who’s also a cop. He’s a great young man. She wants to study op on race and race issues.

I’m pointing her toward Sowell and Williams, both of whom will give truthful answers.

[Mean Daddy]

Dr. Sowell is one of the 20th Century’s greatest thinkers IMHO. His ability to succinctly encapsulate and communicate an idea is remarkable. I just bought his book, Basic Economics and it’s fascinating.

I dread the day when I read of his obituary.

[stevem]

An Underappreciated American Scholar

This adds to the snippets of Sowell's history that I knew...just bits.

Underappreciated??? By me??? Never.

[polymuser]

From another under-appreciated American scholar:

“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.

Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.

Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

- Booker T. Washington, historical black educator and Presidential advisor

[MV=PY]

I've read many of Thomas Sowell's books. He reduces complex concepts to their essence, making them approachable by laymen. This takes a brilliant mind.

Required reading!

Basic Economics - A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy