{"id":271067,"date":"2025-12-22T12:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=271067"},"modified":"2025-12-22T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:22:10","slug":"this-day-in-history-thomas-sowell-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/this-day-in-history-thomas-sowell-born","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History: Thomas Sowell born"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On this day, December 22, <strong>Thomas Sowell<\/strong> was born\u2014a quiet but towering figure in modern conservative history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sowell\u2019s life story is inseparable from the ideas that shaped generations of conservatives: personal responsibility over victimhood, family stability over social engineering, and hard truths over fashionable lies. Rising from poverty in Harlem, serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, and earning a PhD from the University of Chicago, Sowell rejected the comforting myths of the Left in favor of evidence, history, and moral clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a time when academia increasingly attacked the family, religion, and merit, Sowell defended them with relentless honesty. He exposed how government policies\u2014especially those undermining marriage, work, and community\u2014inflicted lasting harm on the poor, often under the guise of compassion. Long before \u201cwoke\u201d ideology became mainstream, Sowell warned that abandoning objective truth would corrode both culture and character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For conservatives, Sowell\u2019s legacy is not just intellectual\u2014it is moral. He reminded us that freedom is inseparable from responsibility, that strong families are the foundation of a healthy society, and that reality cannot be rewritten by ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, December 22, Thomas Sowell was born\u2014a quiet but towering figure in modern conservative history. Sowell\u2019s life story is inseparable from the ideas that shaped generations of conservatives: personal responsibility over victimhood, family stability over social engineering, and hard truths over fashionable lies. 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