Cruelty to Black Students
This year's college news is about black student demands for segregated campus housing and other racially segregated campus spaces and programs. I totally disagree with these calls by black...
About: Walter E. Williams
Posts by Walter E. Williams
Academic Giants and Dwarfs
The courage shown by University of Chicago administrators is relatively rare. The academic tyranny seen on many college campuses reflects a dereliction of duty by those who are charged...
Corrupt Academics and the Media
Some are puzzled by the dishonesty, lack of character and sheer stupidity of many people in the media. But seeing as most of them are college graduates, they don't...
Economic Conspiracies
A general economic principle is that any law or regulation that restricts market entry tends to impose the greatest burden on those who can be described as poor, latecomers,...
College Campus Lunacy
As the fall semester begins, parents, students, taxpayers and donors should be made aware of official college practices that should disgust us all. ...
The Decline of Civility
The abandonment of traditional values has negatively affected the nation as a whole, but blacks have borne the greater burden. ...
Compensating Differences
Compensating differences abound. Even though chuck steak is less preferred, it outsells filet mignon. Less-preferred Toyotas compete effectively with Mercedes-Benzes. Costume jewelry competes with fine jewelry. In each, the...
What Can Discrimination Explain?
Intellectuals and political hustlers who blame the plight of so many blacks on poverty, racial discrimination and the "legacy of slavery" are complicit in the socio-economic and moral decay....
Challenges for Black People: Part II
The prospects for a better future are nearly hopeless for roughly 20 percent of black people — those who reside in big-city crime-infested and dysfunctional neighborhoods. ...
Challenges for Black People
The primary victims of lawlessness are black people. To address this problem and most others, black people should ignore the liberal agenda. If civil authorities will not do their...
Multiculturalism: A Failed Concept
German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that multiculturalism has "utterly failed," adding that it was an illusion to think Germans and foreign workers could "live happily side by side." The...
Purification of America
In 2008, Barack Obama promised a fundamental transformation of America. Where that promise has gone unfulfilled the most is in areas of sexual and racial discrimination. What's worse is...
Lobbying Money Going to Washington
If Americans would demand that Congress do only what's specifically enumerated in our Constitution, influence-peddling would be much smaller. ...
Elitist Arrogance, Part II
The saddest aspect of the minimum wage story is the damage it does to human beings. Enter the arrogance and callousness of the elite. Their vision of what a...
Elitist Arrogance
Today's elite have little taste for my stepfather's admonition: Any kind of a job is better than begging and stealing. ...
You Are What You Say You Are
Last year, I declared myself a springbok trapped in a human body. With such a declaration, some people will suggest that I am suffering from a condition known as...
Scalia School of Law
George Mason University School of Law has just been renamed the Antonin Scalia School of Law in honor of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. ...
Fiddling Away Black Futures
The solution to the problems confronting black people will not be found in the political arena. ...
Common Sense
To teach young people, particularly young men, Benjamin Franklin's admonition that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is a challenging task. ...
A Superior Vision
The immorality associated with violation of the principle of self-ownership lies at the root of problems that could lead to our doom as a great nation. ...