Please Stop Helping Us
In his book Please Stop Helping Us, Jason Riley makes the case that the "help" provided to black Americans by government has been destructive, not helpful. ...
About: Walter E. Williams
Posts by Walter E. Williams
Do Blacks Need Favors?
Civil rights organizations and their progressive allies, who all but suggest that blacks cannot achieve unless they are given special privileges, grossly insult and demean black people. ...
Spending and Morality
Spending is not our basic problem. We've become an immoral people demanding that Congress forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another. ...
Economic Freedom
Unfettered government and crony capitalism, not unfettered markets, are the cause of our current economic problems. ...
The Education Establishment’s Success
Many view America's education as a failure, but in at least one important way, it's been a success — a success in dumbing down the nation so that we fall easy...
Slavery Reparations
What moral principle justifies punishing a white of today to compensate a black of today for what a white of yesterday did to a black of yesterday? ...
Who Owns You?
There's no denying that there's risk in taking a drug or medical procedure that hasn't completed clinical trials. The question is: Who has the right to decide how much risk a...
Petty Annoyances
Most who read my columns think that I'm only annoyed by politicians, growing government and Americans who have little respect or love for liberty and our Constitution. There are other things...
White Privilege
What would you think if your 8-year-old came home and told you that "white privilege is something that white people have, meaning they have an advantage in a lot of things...
America’s Budding Tyrants
Western values of liberty are under ruthless attack by the academic elite on college campuses across America. ...
A Lesson on Racial Discrimination
Though Sterling might be a racist, there's an important "so what?" Does he act in ways commonly attributed to racists? Let's look at his employment policy. ...
Coming End to Racial Preferences
Far more important than the legal battles over racial preferences in college admissions is the question of why they are being called for in the first place. ...
The Constitution or Good Ideas?
Should we be ruled by what are seen as good ideas or by what's permissible by the U.S. Constitution? ...
Wage Discrimination
It's presumed that big, greedy corporations are responsible for what is seen as wage injustice. But is the presumption true? ...
Equality in Discipline
Let's examine some of the absurdity of the Obama administration's take on student discipline. ...