You’re What You Say You Are
Today we're not held to reality. For example, one does not have to accept the limitations of biology. Say that one is born with XX sex chromosomes and is...
About: Walter E. Williams
Posts by Walter E. Williams
Culture and Social Pathology
A civilized society's first line of defense is not the law, police and courts but customs, traditions, rules of etiquette and moral values. ...
Intellectual Dishonesty
Many academics know that to call any science settled is nonsense. But their leftist political sentiments and lack of academic integrity prevent them from criticizing public officials and the...
Liberals Respect Me
Liberals unintentionally treat me like a white person. Unlike their response to other blacks, they demand that I back up my statements. For that, I thank them. ...
The True Black Tragedy
The bulk of today's problems for many blacks are a result of politicians and civil rights organizations using government in the name of helping blacks when in fact they...
Some Odds and Ends: Crime, Diversity, and Sexual Equality
Occasionally, I wonder whether I'm alone in some of my wonderings. Look at the claim that conservatives or Republicans have launched a war on women as a part of...
Black Lives Matter
The protest chant that black lives matter appears to mean that black lives matter only if they are taken at the hands of white police officers. ...
California’s Water Problem
There needs to be a move toward a market-oriented method for the distribution of water. Government management has been a failure. ...
Freedom of Association
Christian Americans are being hounded for their refusal to cater same-sex weddings. For those who support such attacks, we might ask them whether they would seek prosecution of the...
Reality May Be Optional
One of the wonders of modern times is that reality is often seen as a social construct and therefore optional. Thus, if one finds a particular reality offensive or...
The Ticket to Prosperity
Today's Third World poverty is mostly self-inflicted — indigenously created. The growth-promoting characteristics of the non-poor countries that are all but absent in poor countries are protected private property...
Self-enforcing Discrimination
Minimum and maximum prices are but two ways do-gooders handicap poor and discriminated-against people. ...
What’s Gone Wrong With Democracy?
Democracy and majority rule confer an aura of legitimacy and respectability on acts that would otherwise be deemed tyrannical. ...
College Indoctrination Done in the Name of Education
President Barack Obama wants Americans to dig deeper into our pockets to expand college education. Let's update college indoctrination done in the name of education. ...
The Cancer of Multiculturalism
Western values are by no means secure. They're under ruthless attack by the academic elite on college campuses across America. These people want to replace personal liberty with government...
Shame
Today's liberals are not racists, but they often behave that way. They would benefit immensely from considering some of the arguments in award-winning scholar Dr. Shelby Steele's forthcoming book, Shame:...
Economic Fairness and Justice
There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of examples in which the economic game is rigged. Instead of focusing on what's claimed to be an unfair income distribution, we need to...
Tragic School Stories
Simply calling for more school resources will produce disappointing results. There are several minimum requirements that must be met for any child to do well in school. ...
Defense Against Demagogues
The greatest tool in the arsenal of demagogues is economic ignorance, which my colleagues in George Mason University's economics department battle against tooth and nail. ...