Free Speech
I am all too afraid that most of my fellow Americans are hostile to the principle of liberty in general. Most people want liberty for themselves. I want more...
About: Walter E. Williams
Posts by Walter E. Williams
Education Disaster
The 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress report, also known as The Nation's Report Card, shows that U.S. educational achievement, to put it nicely, leaves much to be desired....
Attacking Our Founders
What distinguishes the West, namely Britain and the U.S., from other nations are the extraordinary measures they took to abolish slavery. ...
Destroying Your Vote
Voter ID laws have been challenged because liberal Democrats deem them racist. I guess that's because they see blacks as being incapable of acquiring some kind of government-issued identification....
Who’s Responsible?
Hillary Clinton told a mixed audience, "I mean, if we're honest, for a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young black man in a hoodie...
Liberal and Progressive Vision
Liberals and progressives express alarm that there are an estimated 300 million privately held firearms in our country. Some have called for a national arms registry to be created...
Wealth, Poverty and Politics
Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective by Thomas Sowell is a true gem in terms of exposing the demagoguery and sheer ignorance of politicians and intellectuals in their claims...
Suppressing Free Speech
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., has called for the criminal investigation of people and organizations who are seen as global warming deniers. ...
Liberal Reasoning: Idiotic or Dishonest?
What the liberals believe — and want us to believe — is that though an increase in the cost of anything will cause people to use less of it,...
Attack on Teachers
The sorry and tragic state of black education and its attendant problems will not be turned around until there's a change in what's acceptable behavior and what's unacceptable behavior....
Wasn’t Always This Way
Academics and public intellectuals, who should know better, attempt to explain the highly visible and publicized pathology witnessed in cities such as Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, Ferguson and others as...
Why Home Schooling?
In 1970, there were only 10,000 home-schooled children. In 2012, according to recently released data from the National Center for Education Statistics, there were about 1.77 million children who were being...
The Struggle for Economic Liberty
Here's my taxi question. If a person is law-abiding, has a driver's license, has a car or van that has passed safety inspection, and has adequate liability insurance, is...
Academic Fascism II
As parents gear up to fork over $20,000 to $60,000 for college tuition, they might benefit from knowing what greets their youngsters. Deceitful college officials, who visit high schools...
Academic Fascism
George Orwell said, "There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them." If one wants to discover the truth of Orwell's statement, he need only...