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I’m a first-generation, 17-year-old Black American who grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the Brooklyn neighborhood made famous by Jay-Z. Given that brief biography, perhaps you’d assume that I’m a Black Lives Matter slogan-chanting, capitalism-chastising teen activist. Or that I’m an at-risk youth, destined for dropping out or incarceration. You’d be wrong on both counts. I’m a religious Christian and political conservative with an after-school job as a dishwasher at Panera: three things that, if we’re to believe the statistics about Gen Z, make me an outlier. One thing the studies definitely get right: my peers and I are online all the...

This is a video documentary on Thomas Sowell that I highly recommend.

In “America By Heart” folks will get a feel for some of my favorite writers and thinkers. One of them is the great economist Thomas Sowell. Some of you may recall that in “Going Rogue” I mentioned Sowell’s famous book “A Conflict of Visions” to explain the way the liberal or “progressive” world view and philosophy differs from the conservative view. Sowell’s articles are always worth reading, and his most recent column is no exception. He reminds us where our attention needs to be during this lame-duck session of Congress. He notes that the Democrats have articulated their tired class...

DP: One of the clearest thinkers, and for me, folks, that’s a big compliment, in America, Tom Sowell is my guest. Economic Facts And Fallacies, about race, about male/female, about what’s happening in urban centers, and we’re going to go through each of them. Today is the primary in Florida, and I suspect you’re not going to give me an answer to this, and that’s all right, but I’m going to ask it to you anyway. Is there anybody, at least from an economics perspective, that you like? TS: Oh, I guess Romney knows more about the economy, apparently, than...

The reader outcry was loud and long. Late last year, essayist John Ridley wrote an article for Esquire magazine, using an in-your-face style to rip the black underclass. He went on to describe famous blacks who've excelled in recent years -- Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell -- and argued that the whole group benefited from their work. It's up to us, he wrote, to emulate their success. It quickly became clear that irate readers weren't much concerned with Ridley's argument. They were derailed by the fact that a black had blasted other blacks. In a national magazine. With a mostly white...