Walter E. Williams's Blog, page 5

Challenges For Black People

President Barack Obama and his first attorney general Eric Holder called for an honest conversation about race. Holder even called us "a nation of...

Thinking Beyond Stage One

A recent ruling by the U.S. Department of Commerce dramatically increased tariffs on some Chinese steel products, such as cold-rolled steel, which...

Multiculturalism: A Failed Concept

German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that multiculturalism has "utterly failed," adding that it was an illusion to think Germans and foreign...

Purification of America

In 2008, Barack Obama promised a fundamental transformation of America. Where that promise has gone unfulfilled the most is in areas of sexual and...

Money Going to Washington

According to a New York Post article (May 22, 2016), in just two years, Hillary Clinton -- former first lady, senator from New York and secretary...

Elitist Arrogance, Part II

A basic economic premise holds that when the price of something rises, people seek to economize on its use. They seek substitutes for that which...

Elitist Arrogance

White teenage unemployment is about 14 percent. That for black teenagers is about 30 percent. The labor force participation rate for white teens...

You Are What You Say You Are

Last year, I declared myself a springbok trapped in a human body. A springbok is a highly agile individual who is among the "least concern"...

Scalia School of Law

George Mason University School of Law has just been renamed the Antonin Scalia School of Law in honor of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin...

Fiddling Away Black Futures

Most black politicians, ministers, civil rights advocates and professionals support Hillary Clinton's quest for the presidency. Whoever becomes...