Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality

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Blocking high-performing charter schools is a moral outrage when quality education may be poor children’s essential route to a better life.
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About two-thirds of children in Iceland are raised in single-parent homes, versus roughly one in 66 children in South Korea.
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New York’s highest-scoring districts had average family incomes four to more than nine times those of Success Academy families, yet scored lower.
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When the top tax rate fell from 73% to 24%, high earners’ share of total taxes rose from 30% to 65%.
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Among Americans aged 18 to 29, 45% viewed capitalism favorably, while 51% viewed socialism favorably in the cited Gallup poll.
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Harvard’s class of 2019 reportedly averaged SAT scores of 2,149 for Black students, 2,218 for white students, and 2,300 for Asian students.
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Racial preferences can place capable Black students at colleges whose academic standards exceed their preparation, making success feel like failure.
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Teachers’ unions can obstruct charter expansion with political money, votes, and administrative barriers. Successful charters expose public schools to competition.
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A large population of unemployed teenage males with little structure can harm communities, even when policy aims to show compassion.
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Affirmative action can harm both favored and disfavored groups, disadvantaging applicants and placing beneficiaries where they are less likely to succeed.
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Treating Black people as responsible actors has been missing from policy and academic debates about closing racial gaps.
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Black married couples faced a 7.5% poverty rate, compared with 22% among Blacks overall and 11% among whites overall.
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Logic cannot validate a theory by itself. Evidence matters, especially when it threatens a cherished social vision.
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Harlem children do not need the past restored to receive a good education. Effective schools already prove it.
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A cause may demand your money, comfort, or status. It must never demand your mind or conscience.
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Marriage, educational effort, and books or other learning resources at home are lifestyle choices linked to differences in outcomes.
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An explanation can become intellectually dominant simply because no rival explanation is available, even without careful testing.

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