6 thoughts on “Sowell On Impacts Of Welfare State”

  1. A hero and a sage…and with passion. Also, in 1980, you could still have honest debates.

    1. You might recall there was political correctness even then, J. Sobran. He said some things that would have been difficult for a white man to say. I really admire the way that Sowell picked apart the assumptions behind the welfare state. I agree– a hero and a sage.

  2. Yes and deservedly so , before it’s too late, as he is now 96. He has had a distinguished career. His mentor was Milton Freidman who he once quoted: “Some individuals can contribute more by staying out of government”.

    He authored 45 books on economics, race and education.

    I recall watching Sowell on William F. Buckley’s Firing line and listening to him as a guest on the Rush Limbaugh radio show.

    In many of his ennobling moments Sowell testified in support of Robert Bork’s nomination to the SCOTUS.

    He is definitely one of America’s treasures.

    1. That is a good way of describing him, Fred. One of America’s treasures. He took a very high profile in opposition to the prevailing progressive/ socialist groupthink that seeks to render blacks helpless and wards of the state.

      1. If his conclusions were more statist or woke, he would have gotten the Nobel Prize easily. Telling the truth has huge costs in our Orwellian times.

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