June 20, 2013

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Thomas Sowell

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Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution.


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  • Thomas Sowell: Farmers should raise pay if they want more workers

    By Thomas Sowell | 06/10/13 07:05 PM

    One of the most common arguments for allowing more immigration is that there is a "need" for foreign workers to do "jobs that Americans won't do," especially in agriculture. One of my most vivid memories of the late Armen Alchian, an internationally renowned economist at UCLA, involved a lunch...

  • Thomas Sowell: Folly in the military

    By Thomas Sowell | 06/10/13 06:55 PM

    The headline on the front page of the New York Times said it all: "Women in the Senate Confront the Military on Sex Assaults." In a triumphalist article showcasing the growing numbers of women on the Senate Armed Services Committee, "one of the Senate's most testosterone-driven panels," the...

  • Thomas Sowell: Historic rescuers -- a review of 'The Savior Generals'

    By Thomas Sowell | 06/03/13 06:30 PM

    It is not really news that Victor Davis Hanson has written another outstanding and eye-opening book. He has done that before and repeatedly, on a variety of subjects. The subject of his latest book, "The Savior Generals" is given in the subtitle: "How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were...

  • Thomas Sowell: Politicians base immigration policy on abstractions

    By Thomas Sowell | 06/03/13 06:20 PM

    One of the many sad signs of our times is the way current immigration issues are discussed. A hundred years ago, the immigration controversies of that era were discussed in the context of innumerable facts about particular immigrant groups. Many of those facts were published in a huge,...



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