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High-stakes courts

Published: Jul 3 2008, 10:47 PM

By Thomas Sowell

Recent landmark court decisions are reminders that elections are not just about putting candidates in office for a few years. The judges that elected officials put on the bench can remake the legal landscape, change fundamental social policies and even affect the way wars are fought, long after those who appointed them have served their terms and passed from the scene.

The imitators

Published: Jun 27 2008, 12:46 AM

By Thomas Sowell

If anyone suggested that Tiger Woods should try to be more like other golfers, people would question the sanity of whoever made that suggestion. Why should Tiger Woods try to be more like Phil Mickelson? If Tiger turned around and tried to golf left-handed, like Mickelson, he probably wouldn’t be as good as Mickelson, much less as good as he is golfing the way he does right-handed.

Is prestige worth it?

Published: Jun 20 2008, 12:41 AM

By Thomas Sowell

The obsession of many high school students and their parents about getting into a prestigious college or university is part of the social scene of our time. So is the experience of parents going deep into hock to finance sending a son or daughter off to Ivy U. or the flagship campus of the state university system.

Cocky ignorance

Published: Jun 12 2008, 11:22 PM

By Thomas Sowell

Now that Sen. Barack Obama has become the Democrats’ nominee for President of the United States, to the cheers of the media at home and abroad, he has written a letter to the Secretary of Defense, in a tone as if he is already president, addressing one of his subordinates.

Obama and McCain

Published: Jun 7 2008, 10:51 PM

By Thomas Sowell

Now that the two parties have finally selected their presidential candidates, it is time for a sober — if not grim — assessment of where we are.

Mascot politics don’t benefit mascots

Published: May 23 2008, 11:34 PM

By Thomas Sowell

Years ago, when Jack Greenberg left the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to become a professor at Columbia University, he announced that he was going to make it a point to hire a black secretary. This would of course make whomever he hired be seen as a token black, rather than as someone selected on the basis of competence.

Too “complex”?

Published: May 16 2008, 12:22 AM

By Thomas Sowell

Some people think that the reason the public misunderstands so many issues is that these issues are too “complex” for most voters. Is that really so?

Random Events

Published: May 9 2008, 12:29 AM

By Thomas Sowell

Sometimes unrelated events nevertheless tell a coherent story. One newspaper story that caught my eye recently was about two high-powered schools in South Korea where Korean girls study 15 hours a day, preparing themselves for tests to get into elite colleges in the United States. Harvard, Yale and Princeton already have 34 students from those schools.

An old newness

Published: May 1 2008, 11:35 PM · Updated: May 1 2008, 11:37 PM

By Thomas Sowell

Many years ago, a great hitter named Paul Waner was nearing the end of his long career. He entered a ballgame with 2,999 hits, one hit away from the landmark total of 3,000, which so many hitters want to reach, but which relatively few actually do reach.

William F. Buckley, a pioneer

Published: Mar 9 2008, 10:06 PM

By Thomas Sowell

Writing in 1954, Lionel Trilling said that most conservatives do not “express themselves in ideas, but only in action or in irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas.”

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