Thomas Sowell: The soul of black intellectual thought

Thomas Sowell thinks and speaks better at ninety than Joe Biden ever did. And he has been doing so for more than forty years.

Great column (file below) today by the always excellent Jason Riley. Thomas Sowell is so much more than a conservative or an economist. And while he is Black, he is more important a person of intellect and integrity, willing to acknowledge 'rot' when he sees it and willing to stand on his principles and not on his race.

"Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education."

John Alexander Smith, Speech to Oxford University students, 1914

The Soul of Black Conservatism - WSJ.pdf

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