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The Pay Gap Myth Sowell Debunked Decades Ago (opens the original)
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Get 25% off for 1 yearThomas Sowell has been picking apart the gender pay gap narrative since before it became a permanent talking point in every election cycle. Long before think pieces and hashtags turned the wage gap into gospel, Sowell was sitting across from an interviewer, methodically dismantling the entire premise using nothing but data and patience.The setup is always the same. Somebody pulls raw averages, women earn less than men, case closed, discrimination c
Taxpayers Funding the Slogan Factories (opens the original)
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Taxpayer dollars fund classrooms designed to produce young people equipped with nothing more than repeated chants, but not the ability to think independently or be prepared to do meaningful work. As you watch a different campus protest each week spout the same empty rhetoric, it becomes apparent that there is an education system that takes the taxpayers’ money, puts it into a machine and churns out predictable outrage (and more of the same) in place of capable citizens.Rather than developing ind
Compared to What? At What Cost? What Evidence? (opens the original)
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Get 25% off for 1 yearAround the 6:30 mark in the video above, Thomas Sowell lays out three questions he says would destroy most arguments coming from the left: compared to what, at what cost, and what hard evidence do you have.It’s a simple test. And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s public statements, laid out earlier in the same video, fail it repeatedly.Subscribe n
Greed Didn’t Make Venezuela Starve. A Policy Did. (opens the original)
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Get 25% off for 1 yearThomas Sowell has a habit of separating two questions people constantly collapse into one: what caused something, and who gets blamed for it. They sound similar. They’re not the same question, and mixing them up produces some of the worst policy arguments in modern politics.Bernie Sanders offers a clean example. Sanders has argued, in essence, that the greed of billionaires and Wall Street is what’s destroying the lives of millions of A
Two Countries With No Oil Outbuilt a Country That Has Nothing Else (opens the original)
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Get 25% off for 1 yearThomas Sowell’s case against economic determinism starts with a simple comparison: look at what a country actually has, and what it actually does with it.Saudi Arabia sits on some of the largest oil reserves on Earth. That wealth built skylines, funded a state, and gave the country enormous income without requiring much in the way of institutions, skilled labor, or domestic industry. The resource did the work. The economy didn’t have to
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