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Walter E. Williams

Walter E. Williams was a professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA and a member of the Board of Advisors for the Media Research Center's Free Market Project.

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February - Cutting Weather', 1839. A typical day at Dr Swishtail's Academy. Boys at their desks look on as the schoolmaster punishes a boy by flogging him with the birch. The biggest boy in class holds the victim on his back. (Photo credit: Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
Walter Williams: Nation's Report Card Shows Need for Student Discipline
May 5, 2020 | 10:36am EDT
The American flag swirls in the wind. (Photo credit: Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)
Walter Williams: Today's Americans Must Rise to the Challenge
April 28, 2020 | 10:31am EDT
The stock market takes a plunge during the coronavirus. (Photo credit: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)
Walter Williams: A COVID-19 Cost-Benefit Analysis
April 21, 2020 | 10:18am EDT
Pictured is Harvard University's campus. (Photo credit: Brooks Kraft/Corbis via Getty Images)
Walter Williams: Colleges Hurting Financially Can Cut These Departments
April 14, 2020 | 9:44am EDT
CNN's logo advertises an app for the media outlet. (Photo credit: Hoch Zwei/Corbis via Getty Images)
Walter Williams: Left Uses Coronavirus as Another Chance to Manipulate Through Racial Hoaxes
April 7, 2020 | 10:03am EDT
A dollar sign is featured on a black background. (Photo credit: YouTube/Javier Velasco Barrero)
Walter Williams: 'Price Gouging' Laws Are Not the Way to Manage a Disaster
March 31, 2020 | 10:11am EDT
A teacher instructs the class. (Photo credit: MARTIN BUREAU/AFP via Getty Images)
Walter Williams: Could Crime Tolerance in Progressive Cities Explain Low Black Education?
March 24, 2020 | 10:12am EDT
A woman paints the Communist symbol of the hammer and sickle on the face of a Lebanese Communist Party supporter during a march celebrating the International Labour Day in the Lebanese capital Beirut. (Photo credit: ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)
Walter Williams: Socialist Statements Look Nothing Like Socialist Reality
March 17, 2020 | 10:24am EDT
Democratic presidential hopeful Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during a 2020 Super Tuesday Rally at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction, Vermont March 3, 2020. (Photo credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)
Walter Williams: Believing in a 'Right' to Healthcare Means Believing in Theft
March 10, 2020 | 9:31am EDT
A picture taken on February 25, 2020 near Isiolo town in Isiolo county, eastern Kenya, shows locust nymphs aggregated on the ground at a hatch site. (Photo credit: TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)
Walter Williams: The Real Culprit Behind Africa's Locust Plague
March 3, 2020 | 9:45am EST