by Walter Williams | Feb 1, 1997 | POLITICS
Dr. Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institution’s distinguished senior fellow, delivered a lecture in New Zealand last year titled “The Quest for Cosmic Justice.” He discussed how often we observe tragic differences in the lives of people. Some live in luxury;... by Leonard Peikoff | Jan 28, 1997 | Foreign Policy, Middle East & Israel
President Clinton’s air strike against Iraq is more than geographically misguided. Clinton is fighting the wrong country for the wrong reasons. Because he “doesn’t want to take sides,” Clinton has launched missiles and flown patrols well away... by Walter Williams | Jan 20, 1997 | Education
For years I’ve said that if the Ku Klux Klan wanted to sabotage black academic excellence, they couldn’t find a tool more effective than the public school system in most major cities.The evidence of that tragedy continues. The latest is contained in a... by George Reisman | Jan 11, 1997 | Welfare
The only really proper reform is the gradual abolition of the whole system, accompanied by the restoration of conditions in which people can rely on the future buying power of their savings.
by George Reisman | Jan 11, 1997 | Environment
Environmentalism regards wild speculation as the equivalent of scientific proof, and the “environment”–from California condors and spotted owls to rock formations and jungles–as intrinsically valuable and fully on a par with the value of human life.
by Walter Williams | Jan 1, 1997 | POLITICS
Soon I’ll write to Virginia’s Governor George Allen demanding that he keeps the faith with his predecessors who, in 1788, ratified the Constitution and brought Virginia into the Union. Let’s do some thinking out loud about this letter just to make... by Walter Williams | Dec 30, 1996 | POLITICS
How about a mini-Williams autobiography? From exceedingly humble beginnings, I am now in the top one percent of income-earners. How did that come about? Did someone see me walking around North Philadelphia and say, “Williams, I’m going to make you well... by Richard M Salsman | Nov 24, 1996 | Healthcare
One vital fact was omitted in the news accounts about the success of Boris Yeltsin’s recent heart surgery: the failure of socialized medicine. And this fact underscores the question of whether America’s health-care policies are courting a similar failure.... by Walter Williams | Oct 29, 1996 | POLITICS
Making our value premises explicit and clear can help untangle contentious public policy issues, or at least let us know where people stand. Let’s state my personal value premise. I cherish private property rights. “Okay,” you say, “but what...
