Costs Must Be Weighed Against Benefits
One of the first lessons in an economics class is every action has a cost. That is in stark contrast to lessons in the political arena where politicians virtually ignore cost...
About: Walter E. Williams
Posts by Walter E. Williams
Black Education Tragedy Is New
If we accept the notion that rotten education is not preordained, then I wonder when the black community will demand an end to an educational environment that condemns so many youngsters...
Discrimination and Prejudice
Good analytical thinking requires that we do not confuse one behavioral phenomenon with another. ...
Correct Diagnostics Needed
The bottom line is that while every vestige of racial discrimination has not been eliminated, today's discrimination cannot go very far in explaining the problems faced by a large segment of...
Should Blacks Support Destruction of Charter Schools?
There’s little question that many charter schools provide superior educational opportunities for black youngsters. Why do black people, as a group, accept the attack on charter schools? ...
Blacks of Yesteryear and Today
The solutions to the many problems that black Americans face must come from within our black communities. They will not come from the political arena. ...
Is Getting Trump Worth It?
Can our nation survive the widespread anti-Trump hate? ...
Disgusting Professorial Teachings
The ugliness that we have recently witnessed including rioting, billions of dollars of property destruction, assaults, murders and grossly stupid claims about our nation has its origins on college campuses. ...
Racial Deception
During slavery, many black women, often in a forcible union with a white man, bore mixed-race children. Based on their percentage of white blood, they were deemed “mulattos,” “quadroons,” “octoroons” or...
The Fight for Free Speech
Leftist faculty teach immature young people all manner of nonsense that contradicts commonsense and the principles of liberty. Chief among their lessons is a need to attack free speech in the...
Supreme Court and Rules of the Game
A referee’s job, whether he is a football referee, baseball umpire or a Supreme Court justice, is to know the rules of the game and to ensure that those rules are...
Language and Thought
Sloppy language permits people to get away with speaking and doing all manner of destructive nonsense without being challenged. ...
The Devil and Karl Marx
Paul Kengor is a professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He has just published The Devil and Karl Marx, a careful look at the diabolical...
Today and Yesterday
In matters of race and other social phenomena, there is a tendency to believe that what is seen today has always been. ...
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Nonsense
It is excellence that explains the disproportionality of ethnic groups is different fields, not diversity and inclusion or lack thereof. ...