Academic Stupidity and Brainwashing
Just when we thought colleges could not spout loonier ideas, we have a new one from American University. ...
About: Walter E. Williams
Posts by Walter E. Williams
Criminologists Mislead Us
There is significant bias among criminologists. The reason for that bias is that political leanings of academic criminologists are liberal. ...
Beginning of U.S. Slavery
The New York Times’ 1619 Project focuses on U.S. slavery and how Black Americans made the country a democracy. But the United States is not a democracy and was never intended...
What Will They Learn at College?
There’s a going-away-to-college question that far too few parents ask or even contemplate: What will my youngster learn in college? ...
How Important Is Today’s Racial Discrimination?
How much of the plight of many blacks can be explained by current racial discrimination? ...
Was Trump Right About Baltimore?
Whether Trump’s claims about Baltimore have any merit is an empirical matter settled by appealing to facts. Let’s look at a few. ...
Being a Racist Is Easy Today
Years ago, it was hard to be a racist. Today, all that has changed. To be a “racist” today takes little effort. ...
What’s Most Important?
Ultimately, the solution to high crime rests with black people. That means black people must become intolerant of criminals making their lives living hell, even if it requires taking the law...
Things Haven’t Always Been This Way
Today’s true tragedy is that most people think what we see today has always been so. As such, today’s Americans accept behavior that our parents and grandparents never would have accepted....
Our Free Speech Crisis
I am afraid that too many of my fellow Americans are hostile to the principles of liberty. Most people want liberty for themselves. I differ. I want liberty for me and...
Reparations for Slavery
Several Democratic presidential hopefuls are calling for Americans to make reparations for slavery. Does this make any sense? ...
Black Education Decline
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says that the city’s specialized high schools have a diversity problem. I bet you can easily guess what they will do to “improve” the racial...
Colleges Committed to Ideological Diversity
If you want to send your youngster to colleges that are seriously committed to civil and diverse debate, pick up a copy of the June 2019 edition of Reason magazine for...
Slavery Is Neither Strange Nor Peculiar
The favorite leftist tool for the attack on our nation’s founding is that slavery was sanctioned. But slavery is by no means peculiar, odd, unusual or unique to the U.S. ...
Higher Education in America
In his new book, Restoring the Promise, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University Richard Vedder discusses several important ideas for higher education reform. ...