Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow in Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has written more than fifty books and countless essays; among the most impactful are Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy, Race and Economics, Knowledge and Decisions, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, and The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. His website is www.tsowell.com.