Thursday, December 29, 2016

Special Report: Farewell Thomas Sowell


By Spectator, Dec. 28, 2016 

I knew Thomas Sowell was getting on in years — so far on in fact as to be 86. But it was still a jolt to read in Tuesday’s TAS that he is retiring from his long-running syndicated column. With 50+ books to his credit and nearly 2,000 columns on matters of importance to us all, his intellectual contribution has been enormous. He’s certainly earned his retirement. But to say that his periodic wisdom on the affairs of the day will be missed is a Major League understatement.

Sowell is one of the clearest thinkers around, and has been an important conservative voice for decades. It’s not that he’s an ideologue, someone who whoops up a particular political philosophy. But he parses public issues rationally, on the basis of evidence, which makes him come down on the conservative side more often than not. Reality favors the conservative view of most things, and Sowell is all reality all of the time. In the baseball phrase, he pounds the strike zone.

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