"One of the reasons government programs don't work, they can't produce good parents."
--- Thomas Sowell

What converted him from a young man believing in Marxism to the firm believer in free markets that he is today?

"I took a job in the government. ... One summer of working in the government was enough to change my thoughts. ... I realized that the government was nowhere close to being capable of doing what people on the left wanted the government to do. And, in fact, we'd be lucky if they didn't make things worse."