About: Walter E. Williams

College Cheating Scandal

More than 50 people were charged with cheating and bribery to get their children admitted to prestigious colleges and universities. These recent revelations are only the tip of the...

Is Income Inequality Fair?

Some Americans have much higher income and wealth than others. In a free society, people earn income by serving their fellow man. The only people who benefit from class warfare...

Our Planet Is Not Fragile

It is the height of arrogance to think that mankind can make significant parametric changes in the earth or can match nature’s destructive forces. Our planet is not fragile....

Politics of Immigration

Does everyone in the world have a right to live in the U.S.? Do the American people have a right, through their elected representatives, to decide who has the...

Disparities Galore

Much is made about observed differences between sexes and among races. The nation's academic and legal elite try to sell us on the notion that men and women and...

Acceptable Racism

How appropriate would it be for a major publicly held American company to hire a person with a history of having publicly made the following statements and many others...

Miseducated or Stupid?

A recent Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation survey found that 51 percent of American millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist country than in a capitalist country....

Skin in the Game

A very disturbing and mostly ignored issue is how absence of skin in the game negatively impacts the political arena. It turns out that 45 percent of American households,...

Democratic-Controlled House

Democrats are hoping the coming election will give them a majority in the House of Representatives. Republicans and much of our nation dread that prospect. My question is: What...