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 the official...
About: Walter E. Williams
Posts by Walter E. Williams
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 person should...
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 species dysphoria,...
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. ...
Rights Versus Wishes
When God gave Moses the eighth commandment — "Thou shalt not steal" — I am sure that he did not mean "thou shalt not steal unless there is a majority vote...
Attacking Our Nation’s Founders
Ignorance of our history, coupled with an inability to think critically, has provided considerable ammunition for those who want to divide us in pursuit of their agenda. ...
More Campus Lunacy
Students, often with the blessing of faculty, have discovered that names for campus buildings and holidays do not always fit politically correct standards for race, class and sex. ...
Campus Lunacy
It is little mystery why so many college students are illiterate, innumerate and resistant to understanding. Let's look at it. ...
James Madison: Our Forgotten Statesman
George Washington, our first president, is probably our greatest and most decent statesman. We celebrate Washington's Birthday each February. But March 16th marks the birthday of probably the second-most important and...
The Seen and Unseen
There is no such thing as a free lunch or a something-for-nothing machine. Whenever there is a benefit of doing something, there is a guaranteed cost. ...