Thomas Sowell, PhD, 86, the brilliant economist and writer
is retiring from writing columns. I consider him to be one of the five or ten smartest
people in the country. His numerous books are all worth reading, as he has a
terrific ability to translate the complex into clear understanding for average
minds (like mine, alas). I highly recommend Basic
Economics, which has been translated into six languages and used as an economic
text all over the world. I learned more from it than any other book I have ever
read. I also highly recommend his books Race
and Culture: A World View, Applied Economics and Black Rednecks and White Liberals. There are many more. He will
pursue his hobby of photography, learned as a photographer in the Marines. His
voice will be missed, but I wish him a happy, peaceful and enjoyable retirement
and long life. My monthly Random Thoughts
were inspired by his far better Random
Thoughts on the Passing Scene columns. Look up his work. ~Bob
Farewell
by Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: Even the
best things come to an end. After enjoying a quarter of a century of writing
this column for Creators Syndicate, I have decided to stop. Age 86 is well past
the usual retirement age, so the question is not why I am quitting, but why I kept
at it so long. It was very fulfilling to be able to share my thoughts on the
events unfolding around us, and to receive feedback from readers across the
country — even if it was impossible to answer them all. Being old-fashioned, I
liked to know what the facts were before writing. That required not only a lot
of research, it also required keeping up with what was being said in the media.
Last column, Worth Reading :
Random Thoughts, Looking Back. By
Thomas Sowell
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443343/thomas-sowell-final-thoughts-learning-history-experience?utm_source=jolt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Jolt%2012/27/2016&utm_term=Jolt
Excerpt: Any honest man, looking back on a very
long life, must admit — even if only to himself — being a relic of a bygone
era. Having lived long enough to have seen both “the greatest generation” that
fought World War II and the gratingest generation that we see all around us
today makes being a relic of the past more of a boast than an admission. Not
everything in the past was admirable. Poet W. H. Auden called the 1930s “a low
dishonest decade.” So were the 1960s, which launched many of the trends we are
experiencing so painfully today. Some of the fashionable notions of the 1930s
reappeared in the 1960s, often using the very same discredited words and
producing the same disastrous consequences.http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443343/thomas-sowell-final-thoughts-learning-history-experience?utm_source=jolt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Jolt%2012/27/2016&utm_term=Jolt
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