The Welfare State’s Legacy
The No. 1 problem among blacks is the effects stemming from a very weak family structure. ...
About: Walter E. Williams
Posts by Walter E. Williams
We’re All to Blame
We cannot blame politicians for the spending that places our nation in peril. Politicians are doing precisely what the American people elect them to office to do. ...
Statue Removal Craze: Liberals in a Tizzy
Many blacks and their white liberal allies demand the removal of statues of Confederate generals and the Confederate battle flag, and they are working up steam to destroy the images of...
Racial Lies and Racism
The U.S. departments of Justice and Education plan to investigate racial bias in admissions at Harvard and other elite institutions where Asian-Americans are held to far higher standards than other applicants....
Charlottesville Donnybrook
Many politicians, racists, hustlers and tyrants have an agenda that consists mostly of making the U.S. Constitution meaningless and giving government greater control over our lives, thereby destroying personal liberty. The...
Women and Men Are Equal
You say, "Are you serious, Williams? Or are you making light of the Google firing of James Damore?" My vision is that Damore has the right to say whatever he wishes...
Is College Education Worth It?
College is not for everyone. There is absolutely no shame in a youngster's graduating from high school and learning a trade. ...
Conflicting Visions
Despite the fact that people have common goals, we often see them grouped into contentious factions, fighting tooth and nail to promote polar opposite government policies in the name of achieving...
Western Values Are Superior
Intellectual elites argue that different cultures and their values are morally equivalent. That's ludicrous. ...
Slavery
While slavery constitutes one of the grossest encroachments on human liberty, it is by no means unique or restricted to the Western world or United States, as many liberal academics would...
Minimum Wage Cruelty
There are political movements to push the federal minimum hourly wage to $15. Raising the minimum wage has popular support among Americans. Their reasons include fighting poverty, preventing worker exploitation and...
Colleges: Islands of Intolerance
Is there no limit to the level of disgusting behavior on college campuses that parents, taxpayers, donors and legislators will accept? Colleges have become islands of intolerance, and as with fish,...
Were Confederate Generals Traitors?
Let's look at some of the facts and ask: Did the South have a right to secede from the Union? If it did, we can't label Confederate generals as traitors. ...
A New Twist on Teaching Economics
Greg Caskey is a social sciences teacher at Delaware Military Academy who has developed an innovative way of teaching the principles of economics — a curriculum that he calls "HipHoponomics," in which...
Rewriting American History
The hate-America types use every tool at their disposal to achieve their agenda of discrediting and demeaning our history. Our history of slavery is simply a convenient tool to further their...