Americans need to pay attention to the miseducation of our youth and that miseducation is not limited to higher education.
Walter Williams
Walter Williams (March 31, 1936 – December 1, 2020) was an American economist, commentator, academic, and columnist at Capitalism Magazine.
He was the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and a syndicated editorialist for Creator's Syndicate. He is author of Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?, and numerous other works.
Leftist Effort to Revise American History
Most of the effort to rewrite American history has its roots among the intellectual elite on our college campuses whose message has been sold to predominantly white college students who have little understanding of how they are being used.
Is Racism Responsible for Today’s Black Problems?
In recent times, there is an average of 9,252 black-on-black murders every year. Over the past 35 years, that translates into nearly 324,000 blacks murdered at the hands of other blacks. Only a tiny percentage of blacks are killed by police.
Despicable Behavior of College Intellectuals
“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
Thomas Sowell’s New Book: Charter Schools and Their Enemies
The education establishment, having the nation’s most powerful labor union, has the ears of political leaders. They see a huge loss potential if more parents are able to opt out of poorly achieving public schools.
Thomas Sowell: An Underappreciated American Scholar
Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest economist-philosophers of our age, and I am proud to say that he is one of my best friends.
Appreciating Black History
Government should do its job of protecting constitutional rights. After that, black people should be simply left alone as opposed to being smothered by the paternalism inspired by white guilt.
How Does the Destruction of Black-Owned Businesses Promote Justice for George Floyd?
Who will bear the ultimate cost of the rioting? If you said black people, you are right.
The True Plight of Black Americans is Not “Systemic Racism”
The true plight of black people has little or nothing to do with the police or what has been called “systemic racism.” Instead, we need to look at the responsibilities of those running our big cities.
Some Facts Worth Knowing
If the U.S. “poor” were a nation, then it would be one of the world’s richest.
Insane News Tidbits
The biggest casualty from the COVID-19 pandemic has nothing to do with the disease. It’s the power we’ve given to politicians and bureaucrats.
Rotten Education Isn’t Preordained
Poor performance is often blamed on finances; however, the poorest performing schools have the highest per-pupil spending.
Capitalism’s Enemies Use COVID-19 Crisis as an Excuse for a Wealth Tax
Leftist politicians who want to get into our pocketbooks are beginning to argue that the COVID-19 pandemic is the best argument for a wealth tax.
The Nation’s Education Report Card
Today, unfortunately, we’ve replaced practices that work with practices that sound good and caring, and we’re witnessing the results.
Today’s Americans and Yesteryear’s Americans
My prediction is that Americans, left to their own tendencies, will roar together as giants and will ignore the political and media crybabies.
Benefits vs. Costs of the Government Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
We should focus on shielding the elderly and people with comorbidities while allowing the young and healthy to associate with one another in order to build up immunities
Fixing College Academic Corruption
Grievance scholars, from gender studies, queer, sexuality and critical race studies, bully students, administrators, into adhering to their worldview.
Manipulation Through Racial Hoaxes
It may be perplexing to some, but I believe that our nation has made great progress in matters of race, so much so that imaginary racism and racial hoaxes must be found.
“Price Gouging” Restricts “Hoarding” and Eliminates Shortages
Higher prices charged have a couple of unappreciated benefits.
‘Progressive’ Cities vs. Education Black Students
‘Progressive’ cities, on average, have black/white achievement gaps in math and reading that are 15 and 13 percentage points higher than in ‘conservative’ cities.
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