You Don’t Have to Stay Poor
No one can blame you if you start out in life poor, because how you start is not your fault. If you stay poor, you're to blame because it is your...
About: Walter E. Williams
Posts by Walter E. Williams
Touchy Topics
What is the true test of one's commitment to freedom of association? Is it when people permit others to freely associate in ways of which they approve? Or is it when...
Re-education at George Mason
This week begins my 34th year serving on George Mason University's distinguished economics faculty. You might imagine my surprise when I received a letter from its Office of Equity and Diversity...
Progressives and Blacks
When black Americans finally recognize the harm of the progressive agenda, I'm betting they will be the nation's most conservative people, for who else has been harmed by progressivism as much?...
Energy Manipulation
Why is it that natural gas sells in the U.S. for $3.94 per 1,000 cubic feet and in Europe and Japan for $11.60 and $17, respectively? Part of the answer is...
Would They Be Proud?
Most of the parents and civil rights leaders whose sacrifices and courage made today's educational opportunities possible are no longer with us. My question is: If they could know what many...
Black Self-Sabotage
If we put ourselves into the shoes of racists who seek to sabotage black upward mobility, we couldn't develop a more effective agenda than that followed by civil rights organizations, black...
Profiling
Police Capt. Louis Renault, played by Claude Rains in the 1942 movie Casablanca, in the wake of the shooting of a Nazi officer, ordered his men to "round up the usual...
What Egyptians Need
What Egyptian citizens must recognize is that political liberty thrives best where there's a large measure of economic liberty. ...
Black Education Tragedy
As if more evidence were needed about the tragedy of black education, Rachel Jeantel, a witness for the prosecution in the George Zimmerman murder trial, put a face on it for...
Distrusting Government
Recent opinion polls demonstrate a deepening distrust of the federal government. That's not an altogether bad thing. ...
Bit by Bit Strategy
There's a move on to prohibit Washington's football team from calling itself "Redskins," even though a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision said that it has that right. Now the name change...
Unasked and Unanswered Questions
What's the difference between a progressive, a liberal and a racist? In some cases, not much. ...
Unnecessary Tragedy
Why should people have to depend on altruism and voluntary donations to provide something that one day they may need more urgently than food, water, cars, clothing, or housing? All objections...
Understanding Liberals and Progressives
In order to understand the liberal and progressive agenda, one must know something about their world vision and values. Let's examine some of the evidence. ...