A VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS
Ten Thomas Sowell Quotes On Economics and Contemporary Culture
Things to think about when you’re not distracted by other things.
In school I developed the habit of reading writers on both sides of the fence, or the aisle if you prefer. One problem with social media is that it enables you to get into a bubble where the media itself feeds you things that align with your interests. In other words, it feeds you stories that reinforce your views rather than challenging them.
Thomas Sowell is an economist and social critic who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard, received his Masters at Columbia and his doctorate from the University of Chicago. Since then he’s served on the faculties of several universities and authored numerous books. He’s currently a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Sowell’s father died shortly before he was born in North Carolina. His mother, a housemaid, was poor and already had four children so her great aunt and her two daughters adopted him. At age nine his family moved to Harlem as part of the great migration of African Americans from the South to the North. He was the first in his family to study beyond sixth grade.
