February 22, 2012 The ‘Fairness’ Fraud By Thomas Sowell During a recent Fox News Channel debate about the Obama administration’s tax policies, Democrat Bob Beckel raised the issue of “fairness.” He pointed out that a child born to a poor woman in the Bronx enters the world with far worse prospects than a child born […]
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FEBRUARY 15, 2012 Notable & Quotable Thomas Sowell defines ‘social justice.’ Economist Thomas Sowell writing in his syndicated column, Dec. 27: What do you call it when someone steals someone else’s money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else’s money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when
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JANUARY 25, 2012 Individuals should be free to decide what to produce and consume, and their decisions should be made within a predictable policy framework based on the rule of law. By JOHN B. TAYLOR As this election year begins, a lot of people are wondering what we can do to restore America’s prosperity and
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In this clip from the 1980 Free To Choose, socialist Frances Fox Piven tangles with Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell. Sowell, in particular, is incisive with his discussion of “process” versus aspiration — concluding that whatever the purported social goals, liberty suffers
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July 12, 2011 Unknown Unknowns By Thomas Sowell When Donald Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense, he coined some phrases about knowledge that apply far beyond military matters. Secretary Rumsfeld pointed out that there are some things that we know that we know. He called those “known knowns.” We may, for example, know how many aircraft
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