THOMAS SOWELL

Recently I posted on Facebook that Frederick Douglass and Thomas Sowell are two of the authors I admire most. Sowell is a senior fellow of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. In 1990, he won the Francis Boyer Award, presented by the American Enterprise Institute. In 2002 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholarship melding history, economics, and political science. Below is his latest column.