Americans Deserve the IRS
Individually, Americans do not deserve to be subservient to such a fear-mongering, intimidating and powerful agency as the Internal Revenue Service; but collectively, we do. Let's look at it. ...
About: Walter E. Williams
Posts by Walter E. Williams
We Are the Idiots
Our continued acceptance of environmentalist manipulation, lies and fear-mongering has led Congress to establish deadly public policies. ...
Hating America
Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who are accused of setting the bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon, attended the University of Massachusetts. Maybe they hated our nation before college, but...
Honest Examination of Race
If one is strategizing on how to improve the lives of the poorest black people, he wants to leave off his to-do list election of Democrats and black politicians. Also to...
Liberal Suffering and Confusion
The liberal world vision and reality are often at variance, for example, with equal pay for equal work. ...
Academic Cesspools
Philanthropist Thomas Klingenstein voiced disapproval to Bowdoin College president Barry Mills of campus celebration of diversity and ethnic differences while there's "not enough celebration of our common American identity." ...
Price Versus Cost
Suppose you buy a gallon of gas for $3. How much did it cost you? You say, "Williams, that's a silly question. It cost $3." That's where you're mistaken, because there's...
Black Unemployment
Black unemployment has been double that of white Americans for more than 50 years. The black youth unemployment rate is more than 40 percent nationally. In some cities, unemployment for black...
Minority Student Needs
In his new book Meeting the Psychoeducational Needs of Minority Students, Professor Craig Frisby uses the name "quack multiculturalism" to describe the vision of multiculturalism that promotes the falsehoods and distortions...
Are We Equal?
Soft-minded and sloppy-thinking academics, lawyers and judges harbor the silly notion that but for the fact of discrimination, we'd be proportionately distributed by race across incomes, education, occupations and other outcomes....
Intellectuals and Race
After reading Dr. Thomas Sowell's latest book, Intellectuals and Race, one cannot emerge with much respect for the reasoning powers of intellectuals, particularly academics, on matters of race. There's so much...
Educational Rot
Schools of education, whether graduate or undergraduate, tend to represent the academic slums of most college campuses. They tend to be home to students who have the lowest academic achievement test...
Mandated Wages and Discrimination
Whether support for minimum wages is motivated by good or by evil, its effect is to cut off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder for the most disadvantaged worker and...
Higher Minimum Wages
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama proposed raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9 an hour. That would be almost a 25 percent increase....
Abraham Lincoln
My colleague Thomas DiLorenzo, economics professor at Loyola University Maryland, exposed some of the Lincoln myth in his 2006 book, Lincoln Unmasked. Now comes Joseph Fallon, cultural intelligence analyst and former...