Walter E. Williams

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Walter E. Williams
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Costs Must Be Weighed Against Benefits
By Walter E. Williams
Editor's Note: Walter Williams passed away last Wednesday. You can read our tribute to him here.One of the first lessons ...
December 09, 2020
Black Education Tragedy Is New
By Walter E. Williams
Editor's Note: Earlier today, Townhall.com learned that Dr. Walter E. Williams passed away at the age of 84. Dr. Williams' ...
December 02, 2020
Discrimination and Prejudice
By Walter E. Williams
Some of the confusion in thinking about matters of race stems from the ambiguity in the terms that we use. ...
November 25, 2020
Correct Diagnostics Needed
By Walter E. Williams
You present to a physician with severe abdominal pain. He examines you and concludes that your ingrown toenails are the ...
November 18, 2020
Should Blacks Support Destruction of Charter Schools?
By Walter E. Williams
The academic achievement gap between black and white students has proven resistant to most educational policy changes. Some say that ...
November 11, 2020
Blacks of Yesteryear and Today
By Walter E. Williams
I was a teenager, growing up in the Richard Allen housing project of North Philadelphia, when Emmett Till was lynched ...
November 04, 2020
Is Getting Trump Worth It?
By Walter E. Williams
President Donald Trump is not the first president to be hated by a large segment of the American population. In ...
October 28, 2020
Disgusting Professorial Teachings
By Walter E. Williams
Editor's Note: The following piece contains graphic language.The ugliness that we have recently witnessed including rioting, billions of dollars of ...
October 21, 2020
Racial Deception
By Walter E. Williams
During slavery, many black women, often in a forcible union with a white man, bore mixed-race children. Based on their ...
October 14, 2020
The Fight for Free Speech
By Walter E. Williams
The violence, looting and mayhem that this nation has seen over the last several months has much of its roots ...
October 07, 2020
Supreme Court and Rules of the Game
By Walter E. Williams
The United States Constitution's Article 2, Sec. 2, cl. 2, provides that the president of the United States "shall nominate, ...
September 30, 2020
Language and Thought
By Walter E. Williams
Seventeenth-century poet and intellect John Milton predicted, "When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it ...
September 23, 2020
The Devil and Karl Marx
By Walter E. Williams
Paul Kengor is a professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He has just published ...
September 16, 2020
Today and Yesterday
By Walter E. Williams
In matters of race and other social phenomena, there is a tendency to believe that what is seen today has ...
September 09, 2020
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Nonsense
By Walter E. Williams
Check out any professional and most college basketball teams. Their starting five, and most of their other 10 players, are ...
September 02, 2020
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