While politicians squabble over the pros and cons of price controls on prescription drugs, onlooking citizens are often left scratching their heads. Many of today's economic issues are obscured by ...

Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell, by Jason L. Riley, (Basic Books: 2021), 290 pages. If you learn one thing about the economic sociologist Thomas Sowell in reading Jason Riley’s wide-ranging ...

As the nation prepared for its 249th birthday, Thomas Sowell, the nation’s greatest living economist, turned 95. That milestone is cause for reflection in California, Washington, D.C., and all across ...

Regarding “Notable & Quotable: Thomas Sowell on Tariffs” (April 4): Thanks to the Journal for reprinting the thoughts of a national treasure. Here is another gem from his book “Basic Economics” (2000) ...