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, Va., and is currently the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics. 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 50 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." 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, and South Africa's War On Capitalism. 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 advisory boards, including the Review Board of Economics Studies for the National Science Foundation, the Research Foundation, the National Tax Limitation Committee, the Taxpayer's Foundation and the Hoover Institution. The awards and honors Williams have 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. 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 often gives testimony before both houses of Congress. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ I've grown somewhat weary writing about the devastating effects of minimum wage laws but The Wall Street Journal's "Black Youths Miss Out on Good Job News," (Dec. 4, 2009) warrants another try. Today's overall teenage http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/12/16/collusion_against_our_youth f0080284-902e-47fa-95da-15a4cec84e07 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Last year, my column "Global Warming Rope-A-Dope" (12/24/08) started out: "Americans have been rope-a-doped into believing that global warming is going to destroy the planet. Scientists who have been skeptical about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/12/09/weve_been_had 68f1c1d1-6bff-4d1a-bfae-deac4c4edbad Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT The ultimate constraint that we all face is knowledge -- what we know and don't know. The knowledge problem is pervasive and by no means trivial as hinted at by just a few examples. You've purchased a house. Was it the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/12/02/the_pretense_of_knowledge 05a44476-d2a0-4b4e-9324-7b7ecfdef45f Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT How many things in our lives would we like to depend upon the generosity and selflessness of our fellow man, and do you think we would like the outcome? You say, "Williams, are you now putting down generosity and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/11/25/a_minority_view_voluntarism_or_self-interest 90784311-a674-4c9d-91fc-e0045635f6a5 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Last Tuesday, I had the pleasurable task of being Master of Ceremonies for the Atlas Economic Research Foundation dinner in Washington, D.C., that celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Founded... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/11/18/a_minority_view_excused_horrors 0c4bacf9-99a2-431d-9d2a-81607a590596 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT At Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Oct. 29th press conference, a CNS News reporter asked, "Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?"... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/11/11/a_minority_view_constitutional_contempt e5a273f9-228b-4721-a06e-b1325a7c8332 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., and writes frequently for Globe Asia and Forbes magazine.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/11/04/economic_myths_and_irrelevancy ffcf7ba2-b6f3-4f4b-86a6-32300d90f179 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to the person who: "during the preceding year, shall have done . the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/10/28/obamas_nobel_peace_prize 950a9ed4-1881-4394-b491-1bb9b4085d1c Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Americans are harder workers, more philanthropic, individualistic, self-reliant, anti-government than people in most other countries. We've turned what was an 18th-century Third World nation into the freest and most... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/10/21/american_idea e6d4bc9f-0dab-44ef-9ad7-8674fa26b4be Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT College education is a costly proposition with tuition, room and board at some colleges topping $50,000 a year. Is it worth it? Increasing evidence suggests that it's not. Since the 1960s, academic achievement scores http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/10/14/a_minority_view_academic_dishonesty 755ad615-1887-4d03-839c-0749297aaf6c Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Rep. Diane Watson said, in praising Cuba's health care system, "You can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met." W.E.B. Dubois, writing in the National... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/10/07/elites_and_tyrants 16943cdf-547f-47c0-bebb-1a9d60aad513 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Former president Jimmy Carter said, "I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man." That's from a man who earlier... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/09/30/is_disagreement_with_obama_racism d69af236-a35c-4eac-8fbf-1da086c08179 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT Michael Moore's new film, "Capitalism: A Love Story" will be released next month. I've neither seen nor read reviews of the film, except for a short piece in the London Telegraph (9/6/09) titled "Michael Moore film... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/09/23/lying_propaganda 7a83ea9f-e187-42a6-873c-d6df58677cdf Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT Instead of President Obama addressing school students across the nation, he might have accomplished more by focusing his attention on the educational rot in schools in the nation's capital. The American Legislative... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/09/16/education 8e0980a4-99c5-4147-ab9e-c1d889dade6a Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT With the massive increases in federal spending, inflation is one of the risks that awaits us. To protect us from the political demagoguery that will accompany that inflation, let's now decide what is and what is not... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/09/09/inflation_and_deficits d7eff0bd-bbeb-4d53-b362-b288615085e8 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT