Dirty College Secrets
An excellent source for college news is Campus Reform, a conservative website operated by the Leadership Institute. Its reporters are college students. Here is a tiny sample of last year's bizarre...
About: Walter E. Williams
Posts by Walter E. Williams
Dangers of Government Control
How much sense does it make for us to give seven unelected people life-and-death control over our economy and hence our lives? While you're pondering that question, consider another: Should we...
Educational Rot
With but a few exceptions, schools of education represent the academic slums of colleges. They tend to be home to students who have the lowest academic test scores — for example, SAT...
Fascism and Communism
Hitler's atrocities are widely recognized, publicized and condemned. But what about the greatest murderers in mankind's history — the Soviet Union's Josef Stalin and China's Mao Zedong? ...
Moral Values and Customs vs. Laws
Society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values. Customs, traditions and moral values are those important thou-shalt-nots, such as thou shalt not murder, shalt...
Independence Hypocrisy
The secessionist movements in Spain, Germany and Italy have encountered resistance and threats from the central governments, and in Catalonia's case, secessionist leaders have been jailed. ...
Black Self-Sabotage
How long will black people accept the educational destruction of black youngsters — something that only benefits the education establishment? ...
Diversity Obsession
A common feature of our time is the extent to which many in our nation have become preoccupied with diversity. But true diversity obsession, almost a mania, is found at our...
Ignorance Versus Stupidity
Each of us is grossly ignorant about the world in which we live. Nothing's wrong with that ignorance, but we are stupid if we believe that a politician can produce a...
Let’s Help Our Media Friends
Certain people have come up with a name for the ongoing liberal response to Clinton's defeat. They call it Trump derangement syndrome. ...
Undermining America
Leftists have had their greatest successes in undermining American values on the nation's college campuses. Derelict and dishonest college administrators, professors and boards of trustees have given them carte blanche. Let's...
Who Pays What in Taxes?
Some politicians argue that the rich must pay their fair share and label the proposed changes in tax law as tax cuts for the rich. Let's look at who pays what,...
Our Broken Moral Compasses
Many of our problems, both at our institutions of higher learning and in the nation at large, stem from the fact that we've lost our moral compasses and there's not a...
Blacks vs. Police
Let's throw out a few numbers so we can put in perspective the NFL players taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem. Many say they are protesting against...
Not a Day Care
Dr. Everett Piper's "Not a Day Care" is a short but powerful book by a university president who is not afraid to maintain civility and common sense, traits all too rare...