Walter E. Williams, Ph.D., a columnist for The Daily Signal, was a professor of economics at George Mason University until his death Dec. 2, 2020.
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A recent survey conducted by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and polled by YouGov, a research and data firm, found that 70% of millennials… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Jews have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes in economics, 30% of those in medicine, 25% in physics, 20% in chemistry, 15% in literature,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Gun control did not become politically acceptable until the Gun Control Act of 1968 signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The law’s primary… Read More
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Attorney General William Barr last week told a University of Notre Dame Law School audience that attacks on religious liberty have contributed to a moral… Read More
EducationCommentary
If you need an accurate update on some of the madness at the nation’s institutions of higher learning, check out Minding the Campus, a nonprofit… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has published a new paper, “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions.” Keep in mind that many of the grossly… Read More
SocietyCommentary
During my student days at a UCLA economics department faculty/graduate student coffee hour in the 1960s, I was chatting with professor Armen Alchian, probably the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The U.S. Department of Justice has recently sued the Baltimore County government alleging that its written test for police officer recruits was unfairly biased against… Read More
EducationCommentary
Just when we thought colleges could not spout loonier ideas, we have a new one from American University. They hired a professor to teach other… Read More
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John Paul Wright, professor at University of Cincinnati, and Matthew DeLisi, professor at Iowa State University, have penned a powerful article titled “What Criminologists Don’t… Read More
