Kanye and Democrats
Kanye West's support for Trump, along with his criticism of the "plantation" mentality of the Democratic Party, has been met with vicious backlash from the left. ...
About: Walter E. Williams
Posts by Walter E. Williams
Before and After Welfare Handouts
Before the massive growth of our welfare state, private charity was the sole option for an individual or family facing insurmountable financial difficulties or other challenges. ...
Colleges: Anti-Diversity and Pro-Exclusion
The leftist bias at most of the nation's colleges is in stark contrast to the political leanings of our nation. ...
Educational Fraud Continues
Earlier this month, the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka The Nation's Report Card, was released. It's not a pretty story. Only 37 percent of 12th-graders tested proficient...
A Mayor’s Most Important Job
Big cities can be revitalized, but it's going to take mayors with guts to do what's necessary to reverse accumulative decay. ...
Black Political Power Means Zilch
It's often thought to be beyond question that black political power is necessary for economic power and enhanced socio-economic welfare. That's an idea that lends itself to testing and...
Discrimination and Disparities
I don't mind saying that this column represents a grossly understated review of Discrimination and Disparities, just published by my longtime friend and colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell. In less than...
How Ignorant We Are
Here's a question for you: In 1950, would it have been possible for anyone to know all of the goods and services that we would have at our disposal...
Not Always Like This
One of the unavoidable tragedies of youth is the temptation to think that what is seen today has always been. Nowhere is this more noticeable than in our responses...
Hidden Agenda or Ignorance?
We must own up to the fact that laws and regulations alone cannot produce a civilized society. Morality is society's first line of defense against uncivilized behavior. ...
Another Liberal-Created Failure
A liberal-created failure that goes entirely ignored is the left's harmful agenda for society's most vulnerable people — the mentally ill. ...
Black History Month
Black Americans, as a group, have made the greatest gains, over some of the highest hurdles, in a shorter span of time than any other racial group in mankind's...
Immigration Lies and Hypocrisy
We should not fall prey to people who criticize our efforts to combat illegal immigration and who pompously say, "We're a nation of immigrants!" ...
We Don’t Need Bad Law
One major benefit from decriminalizing libel and slander would be that it would reduce the value of gossip. ...
Constitutional Ignorance — Perhaps Contempt
Is it ignorance of or contempt for our Constitution that fuels the movement to abolish the Electoral College? ...
Dirty College Secrets
An excellent source for college news is Campus Reform, a conservative website operated by the Leadership Institute. Its reporters are college students. Here is a tiny sample of last...
Dangers of Government Control
How much sense does it make for us to give seven unelected people life-and-death control over our economy and hence our lives? While you're pondering that question, consider another:...
Educational Rot
With but a few exceptions, schools of education represent the academic slums of colleges. They tend to be home to students who have the lowest academic test scores — for...
Fascism and Communism
Hitler's atrocities are widely recognized, publicized and condemned. But what about the greatest murderers in mankind's history — the Soviet Union's Josef Stalin and China's Mao Zedong? ...
Moral Values and Customs vs. Laws
Society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values. Customs, traditions and moral values are those important thou-shalt-nots, such as thou shalt not...