Thomas Sowell

February 3, 2021. Thomas Sowell continues to inspire and to amaze, with his depth and breadth of knowledge, along with the great insights that they produce. His candor, honesty and integrity are refreshing, especially in these times where his thinking is feared and banned by the mainstream political, educational and media elite.

Sowell is one of the greatest American thinkers of the past fifty years. Watch as Jason Riley hosts a documentary on Sowell's fascinating life and illuminating thinking.

What distinguishes Sowell? According to Riley, it's his intellectual honesty, the importance of incentives (the entirety of economics can be explained by the old saw, "People respond to incentives.") and the reality of trade offs, the belief that a group's upward mobility derives from the development of human capital, and his abiding respect for social processes and existing institutions.

And what is his greatest fear?