The Ticket to Prosperity
Today's Third World poverty is mostly self-inflicted — indigenously created. The growth-promoting characteristics of the non-poor countries that are all but absent in poor countries are protected private property...
About: Walter E. Williams
Posts by Walter E. Williams
Self-enforcing Discrimination
Minimum and maximum prices are but two ways do-gooders handicap poor and discriminated-against people. ...
What’s Gone Wrong With Democracy?
Democracy and majority rule confer an aura of legitimacy and respectability on acts that would otherwise be deemed tyrannical. ...
Global Warming Ruse
Climate change propaganda is simply a ruse for a socialist agenda. ...
College Indoctrination Done in the Name of Education
President Barack Obama wants Americans to dig deeper into our pockets to expand college education. Let's update college indoctrination done in the name of education. ...
The Cancer of Multiculturalism
Western values are by no means secure. They're under ruthless attack by the academic elite on college campuses across America. These people want to replace personal liberty with government...
Shame
Today's liberals are not racists, but they often behave that way. They would benefit immensely from considering some of the arguments in award-winning scholar Dr. Shelby Steele's forthcoming book, Shame:...
Economic Fairness and Justice
There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of examples in which the economic game is rigged. Instead of focusing on what's claimed to be an unfair income distribution, we need to...
Tragic School Stories
Simply calling for more school resources will produce disappointing results. There are several minimum requirements that must be met for any child to do well in school. ...
Defense Against Demagogues
The greatest tool in the arsenal of demagogues is economic ignorance, which my colleagues in George Mason University's economics department battle against tooth and nail. ...
Will the West Defend Western Values?
Western values are indeed superior to all others because they hold the individual as supreme. Though Western values are superior to all others, one need not be a Westerner...
Basic Economics
Dr. Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics explains complex economic phenomena in a way that many economists cannot. And it provides an understanding of some economic phenomena that might prove elusive...
Liberals’ Use of Black People, Part II
Decent Americans should see the dangers posed by America's race hustlers, who are stacking up piles of combustible racial kindling, ready for a racial arsonist to set it ablaze....
Liberals’ Use of Black People
Liberals desperately need blacks. If the Democratic Party lost just 30 percent of the black vote, it would mean the end of the liberal agenda. ...
Black Progression and Retrogression
There is no question, though it's not acknowledged enough, that black Americans have made greater gains, over some of the highest hurdles and in a very short span of...