{"id":11842,"date":"2019-03-11T19:15:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T23:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=11842"},"modified":"2019-03-11T19:15:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T23:15:42","slug":"return-of-the-sowell-man-the-best-economist-is-black-and-hes-back-in-the-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/return-of-the-sowell-man-the-best-economist-is-black-and-hes-back-in-the-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Sowell Man The best economist is black, and he\u2019s back in the battle."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/thomas-sowell-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/thomas-sowell-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/thomas-sowell-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/thomas-sowell-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/thomas-sowell.jpg 1608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>FrontPage Mag<\/strong>, by Lloyd Billingsley &#8212; March 11, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cEven the best things come to an end,\u201d wrote Thomas Sowell in a December, 2016, column headlined \u201c<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creators.com\/read\/thomas-sowell\/12\/16\/farewell\"><em>Farewell.\u201d <\/em><\/a><em>At  the age of 86, the great economist had decided to stop writing his  column and \u201cspend less time following politics and more time on my  photography.\u201d Since then, Sowell has been rather quiet, but current  political trends have prompted him to re-emerge.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cSocialism is a wonderful sounding idea,\u201d <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/economy\/legendary-economist-on-biggest-socialism-myth\"><em>Sowell recently told Fox Business<\/em><\/a><em>.  \u201cIt\u2019s only as a reality that it\u2019s disastrous.\u201d A former Marxist, Sowell  began to see the difference between reality and rhetoric. \u201cWhen you see  people starving in Venezuela and fleeing in the neighboring countries  and realize that this is a country\u00a0that once had the world\u2019s largest oil  reserves, you realize that that\u2019ve ruined a really good prospect with  ideas that sounded good but didn\u2019t turn out well.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/273075\/return-sowell-man-lloyd-billingsley\">https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/273075\/return-sowell-man-lloyd-billingsley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FrontPage Mag, by Lloyd Billingsley &#8212; March 11, 2019 Excerpt: \u201cEven the best things come to an end,\u201d wrote Thomas Sowell in a December, 2016, column headlined \u201cFarewell.\u201d At the age of 86, the great economist had decided to stop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/return-of-the-sowell-man-the-best-economist-is-black-and-hes-back-in-the-battle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11844,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842\/revisions\/11844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}