How to Assist Evil
Though the Holocaust ranks high among the great human tragedies, most people never consider the most important question: How did Adolf Hitler and the Nazis gain the power that they needed...
About: Walter E. Williams
Posts by Walter E. Williams
Sex and Race Equality
There are several race and sex issues that need addressing. Let's look at a few of them with an ear to these questions: Should we insist upon equal treatment of people...
Bizarre Arguments and Behavior
Some statements and arguments are so asinine that you'd have to be an academic or a leftist to take them seriously. ...
Is There Wage Stagnation?
Many economists, politicians and pundits assert that median wages have stagnated since the 1970s. But is that true? ...
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 of decision-making....
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 E. Williams...
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 blame because...
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 and those...
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, ill-informed. ...
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 going to...
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. ...