What is Thomas Sowell?
{{Infobox economist | name = Thomas Sowell | image = Thomas Sowell cropped.jpg | school_tradition = [[Chicago school of economics]] | image_size = | caption = Sowell in 1964 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1930|6|30}} | birth_place = [[Gastonia, North Carolina]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = {{unbulleted list |{{marriage|Alma Jean Parr<br>|1964|1975|end=div}} | {{marriage|Mary Ash<br>|January 17, 1981}}}} | institution = {{unbulleted list |[[Cornell University]] |[[Brandeis University]] |[[Urban Institute]] |[[University of California, Los Angeles]] | [[Hoover Institution]]}} | field = {{hlist | [[Welfare economics]] | education | politics | history | [[race relations]] | [[child development]]}} | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list | [[Harvard University]] | [[Columbia University]] | [[University of Chicago]]}} | influences = {{hlist | [[Friedrich Hayek]] | [[Milton Friedman]] | [[Adam Smith]] | [[Henry Hazlitt]] | [[John Maynard Keynes]]|[[Edmund Burke]] }} | influenced = {{hlist |[[Ben Shapiro]] | [[Clarence Thomas]] |[[Milton Friedman]] |[[Steven Pinker]]<ref>{{citation|last=Pinker|first=Steven|author-link=Steven Pinker|title=[[The Blank Slate|The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature]]|publisher=[[Penguin Books]]|publication-place=New York|year=2002|pages=286–296|quote=The most sweeping attempt to survey the underlying dimension is Thomas Sowell's ''[[A Conflict of Visions]]''... Sowell calls [the two 'visions' of the nature of human beings] the Constrained Vision and the Unconstrained Vision; I will refer to them as the Tragic Vision...and the Utopian Vision... My own view is that the new sciences of human nature really do vindicate some version of the Tragic Vision and undermine the Utopian outlook...}}</ref><ref name=Phaneuf-2013-12-05>{{cite news|last=Phaneuf|first=Emile|title=Sowell's Visions|url=http://fee.org/the_freeman/detail/sowells-visions|access-date=November 14, 2014|newspaper=[[The Freeman]]|date=December 5, 2013|archive-date=February 27, 2014|archive-url=https://