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libertarianismThomas Sowell (born 30 June, 1930)
is a writer and economist and a prominent
conservativehttp://www.townhall.com/columnists/tho
massowell/ts20050107.shtml and libertarian. He was
born in North Carolina.  

==Education==

Sowell grew up in Harlem and attended Stuyvesant
High School in New York, New York|New York City,
dropping out at the age of 17 because of the
difficulties of his family's financial
situationhttp://www-hoover.stanford.edu/pubaffairs
/newsletter/01winter/review.html. After serving in
the US Marine Corps|Marines, he earned an A.B. in
Economics from Harvard College, an A.M. in
Economics from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in
Economics from the University of Chicago, known
for its Chicago school (economics)|Chicago school
of economics.  Sowell has taught at prominent
American universities including Cornell University
and UCLA, and since 1980 has been a Senior Fellow
at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University,
where he holds the fellowship named after Rose and
Milton Friedman.  The latter was one of his
professors.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts
20020725.shtml

==Writings==

Dr. Sowell is both a popular columnist and an
academic economist.

Besides scholarly writing, Dr. Sowell has written
books, articles and syndicated columns for a
general audience, in such publications as Forbes
Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and major
newspapers.  Sowell primarily writes on economic
subjects, in which he generally advocates a
laissez-faire free market approach to capitalism. 
Sowell also writes on racial topics (he is himself
African-American), and is a critic of affirmative
action,http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomasso
well/ts20030108.shtml,http://www.townhall.com/colu
mnists/thomassowell/ts20030109.shtml.

===Columns===

He has a regular column that appears on the
conservative Townhall.com website. He also
regularly writes a column for http://capmag.com
Capitalism Magazine. Dr. Sowell is a staunch
critic of liberal media
biashttp://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowel
l/ts20030701.shtml,http://www.townhall.com/columni
sts/thomassowell/ts20050218.shtml,http://www.townh
all.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20041224.shtml,h
ttp://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts2
0041020.shtml,http://www.townhall.com/columnists/t
homassowell/ts20041012.shtml; judicial activism
http://www.tsowell.com/judicial.htm,http://www.tow
nhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20041109.shtml
,http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/t
s20041110.shtml,http://www.townhall.com/columnists
/thomassowell/ts20041111.shtml; partial birth
abortionhttp://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomass
owell/ts20040604.shtml; gay
marriagehttp://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomass
owell/ts20041231.shtml; and opposed the removal of
Terri Schiavo's feeding
tube.http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowe
ll/ts20050324.shtml  He has written about the
internment of Japanese in WW2 and the profiling of
terrorist suspects
today;http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassow
ell/ts20040921.shtml.

===Books===
*Sowell, Thomas (2005). Black Rednecks and White
Liberals, Encounter Books, ISBN 1594030863
*Sowell, Thomas (2004). Affirmative Action Around
the World: An Empirical Study, Yale University
Press, ISBN 0300101996 
*Sowell, Thomas (2004). Basic Economics: A
Citizen's Guide to the Economy, Revised and
Expanded, Basic Books, ISBN 0465081452 
*Sowell, Thomas (2003). Applied Economics:
Thinking Beyond Stage One, ISBN 0465081436
*Sowell, Thomas (2003). Inside American Education,
ISBN 0743254082 
*Sowell, Thomas (2002). The Einstein Syndrome:
Bright Children Who Talk Late, ISBN 046508141X 
*Sowell, Thomas (2002). Controversial Essays, ISBN
0817929924 
*Sowell, Thomas (2002). A Conflict of Visions:
Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, Basic
Books, ISBN 0465081428 
*Sowell, Thomas (2002). A Personal Odyssey, ISBN
0684864657 
*Sowell, Thomas (2002). The Quest For Cosmic
Justice, ISBN 0684864630 
*Sowell, Thomas (1996). The Vision of the
Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for
Social Policy, Basic Books, ISBN 046508995-X 
*Sowell, Thomas (1986). Marxism: Philosophy and
Economics, Quill, ISBN 0688064264
*Sowell, Thomas (1975). Race and Economics, David
McKay Company Inc, ISBN 067930262

==External links==
*http://www.tsowell.com/ Thomas Sowell's home page
*http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/a
rchive.shtml Column archive at Townhall.com
*http://www.uncommonknowledge.org/900/902.html
'Uncommon Knowledge' discussion of affirmative
action
*http://www.qanda.org/Video/?ProgramID=1019 'Q&A'
Interview (April 17, 2005)
*http://www.booknotes.org/Program/?ProgramID=1007
'Booknotes' Interview (June 10, 1990)