Opinion Archive: Walter E. Williams
- Gullible Americans — Wednesday, December 28, 2011
- China Trade: Myths vs. Reality — Wednesday, December 21, 2011
- Economic Fairness — Wednesday, December 14, 2011
- Free to Die? — Wednesday, December 7, 2011
- Ending Income Inequality? — Wednesday, November 30, 2011
- Should the Rich Be Condemned? — Wednesday, November 23, 2011
- Poverty in America? — Wednesday, November 16, 2011
- Ignorance Exploited — Wednesday, November 9, 2011
- Democracy Is Impossible — Wednesday, November 2, 2011
- Profits Are for People — Wednesday, October 26, 2011
- Pitting Us Against Each Other — Wednesday, October 19, 2011
- It's Hard to Be a Racist — Wednesday, October 12, 2011
- Social Security Disaster — Wednesday, October 5, 2011
- The Financial Mess in the US and Europe — Wednesday, September 28, 2011
- Gov. Perry's Right About Social Security — Wednesday, September 21, 2011
- Too Much Higher Education — Thursday, September 15, 2011
- Blacks and Politics — Wednesday, September 7, 2011
- Race and Economics — Wednesday, August 31, 2011
- Legal Obedience — Wednesday, August 24, 2011
- Ominous Parallels — Wednesday, August 17, 2011
- Ignorance, Stupidity or Connivance? — Wednesday, August 10, 2011
- Cruel Laws — Wednesday, August 3, 2011
- Job Destruction Makes Us Richer — Wednesday, July 27, 2011
- Education Is Worse Than We Thought — Wednesday, July 20, 2011
- Failing Liberty 101 — Wednesday, July 13, 2011
- Gross Media Ignorance — Wednesday, July 6, 2011
- Ignorance, Stupidity or Manipulation — Wednesday, June 29, 2011
- America's New Racists — Wednesday, June 22, 2011
- Our Moral Dilemma — Wednesday, June 15, 2011
- Irksome Things — Wednesday, June 8, 2011
- Do We Deserve Our Fate? — Wednesday, June 1, 2011
- Common Sense Versus Nonsense — Wednesday, May 25, 2011
- Understanding Liberals — Wednesday, May 18, 2011
- Minimum Wage's Discriminatory Effects — Wednesday, May 11, 2011
- Let's Blame Speculators — Wednesday, May 4, 2011
- Smugglers as Heroes — Wednesday, April 27, 2011
- Academic Rot — Wednesday, April 20, 2011
- Eat the Rich — Wednesday, April 13, 2011
- Diversity Perversity — Wednesday, April 6, 2011
- Department of Injustice — Wednesday, March 30, 2011
- Economic Lunacy — Wednesday, March 23, 2011
- Continuing Stubborn Ignorance — Wednesday, March 16, 2011
- Handouts, Morality and Common Sense — Wednesday, March 9, 2011
- Public Employee Unions — Wednesday, March 2, 2011
- Democracy Versus Liberty — Wednesday, February 23, 2011
- Self-Inflicted Poverty — Wednesday, February 16, 2011
- A Killer Agency — Wednesday, February 9, 2011
- Black Education — Wednesday, February 2, 2011
- Can Our Nation Be Saved? — Wednesday, January 26, 2011
- Why We're a Divided Nation — Wednesday, January 19, 2011
- What Our Constitution Permits — Wednesday, January 12, 2011
- True or False — Wednesday, January 5, 2011
About Walter E. Williams
Born in Philadelphia in 1936, Walter E. Williams holds a bachelor's degree in economics from California State University (1965) and a Master's degree (1967) and doctorate (1972) in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.
In 1980, he joined the faculty of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and is currently the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics. From 1995 to 2001, he served as department chairman. He has also served on the faculties of Los Angeles City College (1967-69), California State University (1967-1971) and Temple University (1973-1980). From 1963 to 1967, he was a group supervisor of juvenile delinquents for the Los Angeles County Probation Department.
More than 150 of his publications have appeared in scholarly journals such as Economic Inquiry, American Economic Review and Social Science Quarterly and popular publications such as Reader's Digest, The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek. He has made many TV and radio appearances on such programs as Milton Friedman's Free to Choose, William F. Buckley's Firing Line, Face The Nation, Nightline and Crossfire, and is an occasional substitute host for The Rush Limbaugh Show.
He is also the author of several books. Among these are The State Against Blacks, later made into a television documentary, America: A Minority Viewpoint, All It Takes Is Guts, South Africa's War Against Capitalism and More Liberty Means Less Government.
In 1981, he began writing his weekly column called A Minority View for Heritage Features Syndicate. And in 1991, he joined Creators Syndicate as part of its friendly takeover of Heritage Features.
Williams sits on many boards of directors and advisory boards, including the Hoover Institution, Grove City College, Cato Institute, Institute of Economic Affairs and the Heritage Foundation.
The awards and honors Williams has received are many. These include the National Fellow at the Hoover Institute of War, Revolution, and Peace; the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship; the National Service Award from the Institute for Socioeconomic Studies; and the George Washington Medal of Honor from the Valley Forge Freedom Foundation and Adam Smith Award from the Foundation for Economic Education. In 1984-1985, he received the Faculty Member of the Year Award from the George Mason University Alumni. He is also a member of the American Economic Association, the Mont Pelerin Society and is a Distinguished Scholar of the Heritage Foundation.
Williams participates in many debates and conferences, is a frequent public speaker and has often given testimony before both houses of Congress.
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