Sowell's Life
The Cabinet Seat Sowell Turned Down
In 1980, Ronald Reagan offered Thomas Sowell a cabinet seat. He said no, twice, and went back to his typewriter. Forty-five years later, here is who still has the status.
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Essays by Clay on the life, ideas, and legacy of Thomas Sowell.
Sowell's Legacy
The Book That Built Clarence Thomas
A sitting Supreme Court Justice walked onto a Texas stage, read progressivism's criminal record into the public record, and cited Thomas Sowell by name. Here is the man who built him.
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Sowell's Life
Thomas Sowell at Cornell, 1969
The week a 38-year-old economics professor watched men with PhDs surrender to teenagers carrying rifles, and never trusted a university again.
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