Governed by Rules, Not Men
What kind of rules should govern our lives? I'd argue that the best rules are those that we'd be satisfied with if our very worst enemy were in charge...
About: Walter E. Williams
Posts by Walter E. Williams
Black People Duped
The black family managed to survive several centuries of slavery and generations of the harshest racism and Jim Crow, to ultimately become destroyed by the welfare state. By Walter...
Solutions to Black Education
There is little that the political and education establishment will do about the grossly fraudulent education received by many black youngsters, and more money is not the answer. ...
How Much Do Americans Sanction the Evil of Socialism?
Socialism employs evil means, confiscation and intimidation, to accomplish what are often seen as noble goals — namely, helping one's fellow man. ...
Dependency, Not Poverty
No one can blame a person if he starts out in life poor, because how one starts out is not his fault. If he stays poor, he is to...
Schoolteacher Cheating
Philadelphia's public school system has joined several other big-city school systems, such as those in Atlanta, Detroit and Washington, D.C., in widespread teacher-led cheating on standardized academic achievement tests....
Politics of Hate and Envy
Part of the progressive agenda is to create hate and envy. One component of that agenda is to attack the large differences between a corporation's chief executive officer's earnings...
OK to Feel Sorry
I'm glad the day has come when I can freely feel sorry for whites, who have to bite their tongue when it comes to criticism of blacks. ...
Income Inequality
Democrats plan to demagogue income inequality and the wealth gap for political gain in this year's elections. Most of what's said about income inequality is stupid or, at best,...
Politics and Minimum Wage
In the political arena, one dumps on people who can't dump back on him. Minimum wages have their greatest unemployment impact on the least skilled worker. After all, who's...
Parting Company
The problem our nation faces is very much like a marriage in which one partner has an established pattern of ignoring and breaking the marital vows. ...
Dumb Politicians Won’t Get Elected
Politicians can be progressives, liberals, conservatives, Democrats or Republicans, and right-wingers. They just can't be dumb. The American people will never elect them to office. Let's look at it....
The Pope and Capitalism
First, I acknowledge that capitalism fails miserably when compared with heaven or a utopia. Any earthly system is going to come up short in such a comparison. However, mankind...
Our Fragile Planet
Fragile-earth indoctrination is fed to our youth from kindergarten through college. So let's examine just how fragile the earth is. ...
Blacks and Obama
There is every indication to suggest that Obama's presidency will be seen as a failure similar to that of Jimmy Carter's. That's bad news for the nation but especially...
Masking Totalitarianism
One of the oldest notions in the history of mankind is that some people are to give orders and others are to obey. The powerful elite believe that they...
Do Americans Prefer Deception?
Congress tells us that one-half of the Social Security tax is paid by employees and that the other half is paid by employers. The truth of the matter is...
Does Washington Know Best?
Congress and the president are taking over an area of our lives infinitely more challenging and complex than the management of traffic signals and supermarkets, namely our health care...
Congressionally Duped Americans
Last week's column, "Is There a Way Out?", generated quite a few responses, some a bit angry. Some people were offended by my reference to Social Security and Medicare...
Is There a Way Out?
If we are to be able to avoid ultimate collapse, it's going to take a moral reawakening and renewed constitutional respect. ...