Professor Walter Williams, Ph.D.

Walter Williams
Walter Williams
Dr. Walter Williams is Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He also is an authority on the Constitution and a well known weekly newspaper columnist, published through Creators Syndicate. If you are politically liberal, politically correct, and a devout revisionist, his reasoned analyses of original intent / current events will drive you nuts. If your local paper doesn't carry his column, you may want to ask why?

An archive of past columns is available at the JWR Web site.

Below are a few selected excerpts linked to the full articles:


Keep and Bare Arms
"We Americans have set dangerous precedents. We can rest assured that those pushing for gun control have no intention of stopping short of total gun confiscation. At some point, we who cherish liberty must summon the courage of our forefathers and tell America's tyrants, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" The longer we wait, the greater the ultimate bloodshed." More ...

Phony diversity
"Diversity is a big buzzword on college and university campuses. Diversity has fogged and claimed the minds of campus administrators so much so that they've created diversity fiefdoms." More ...

America's biggest crook
"Washington politicians have for decades been doing precisely what Enron has been accused of doing--concealing debt with accounting tricks. Congressmen tell us that our Social Security taxes go into a trust fund to pay for future retirement pensions. That is a boldface lie. The Social Security trust fund has no money in it." More ...

America: A sissified nation?
Benjamin Franklin warned, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." More ...

Slavery reparations
"What they're demanding is for money to be put into a reparations fund from which they decide who receives how much for what purpose. For me, that has just as much appeal as the Rev. Leroy's call for people to send their money to him and he'll send it to G-d." More ...

The Civil War wasn't about slavery
"THE PROBLEMS THAT LED TO THE CIVIL WAR are the same problems today--big, intrusive government. The reason we don't face the specter of another Civil War is because today's Americans don't have yesteryear's spirit of liberty and constitutional respect, and political statesmanship is in short supply." More ...

Freedom of association
"You might argue that I should hire or deal with the first qualified person who comes along. In terms of freedom of association, that's nonsense. After all, would you say I should marry the first qualified women who comes along or play tennis with the first qualified person, or should I be free to marry or play tennis with people I like?" More ...

Does it count?
"Self-interest is the human motivation that is most trustworthy and predictable, and gets the most wonderful things done. I love it when people, in effect, offer, "Williams, I really don't give a hoot about you, but if you do this wonderful thing for me, I'll do this wonderful thing for you." What worries me is when someone tells me, particularly a politician, "There's nothing in it for me, but I really care about the health and education of your daughter." Even more disturbing is when I ask that politician whether he even knows my daughter's name and he can't answer." More ...

We need to profile
"... The perpetrators were not the people who are routinely harassed and inconvenienced at our airports: businessmen, women, children and babies. The terrorist murderers have been Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40. That fact suggests that there are gains [to be made] from ethnic profiling --" More ...

Threats to rule of law in America
Government attacks on private property have become routine in today's America. John Adams warned, "The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence." More ...

Secession or nullification
Do we allow the federal government to determine the scope of its own powers? Should we accept whatever Congress, the White House and the courts say is constitutional? Not according to Alexander Hamilton, who in Federalist Paper 28 said, "The State governments will, in all possible contingencies, afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority." More ...

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