Walter E. Williams, Special to Postmedia Network

LATEST STORIES BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS, SPECIAL TO POSTMEDIA NETWORK

WILLIAMS: The U.S. in moral decline

Last week, U.S. Attorney General William Barr told a University of Notre Dame Law School audience that attacks on religious liberty have contributed to a moral decline that’s in part manifested by increases in suicides, mental illness and drug addiction. Barr said that our moral decline is not random but “organized destruction.” Namely that “Secularists and their allies have marshaled all the forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and academia in an unremitting assault on religion and traditional values.”

October 22, 2019 Columnists

U.S. Attorney General William Barr speaks at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University School of Law on July 23, 2019 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

WILLIAMS: Decades of idiotic environmental predictions

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 wrong environmentalist predictions were made by respected scientists and government officials. My question for you is: If you were around at the time, how many government restrictions and taxes would you have urged to avoid the predicted calamity?

October 7, 2019 Columnists

Protesters sit on the ground to block the Pont au Change bridge during a demonstration called by climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion, in Paris on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019.

WILLIAMS: Academic stupidity and brainwashing

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 professors to grade students based on their “labour” rather than their writing ability. The professor that American University hired to teach that nonsense is Asao B. Inoue, who is at the University of Washington in Tacoma in interdisciplinary arts and sciences.

September 12, 2019 Columnists

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. 2017. (Creators.com)

WILLIAMS: What will they learn at college?

For many parents, August is a month of both pride and tears. Pride because their teenager is taking that big educational step and tears because for many it’s the beginning of an empty nest. Yet, there’s a going-away-to-college question that far too few parents ask or even contemplate: What will my youngster learn in college?

August 19, 2019 Columnists

WILLIAMS: Was Trump right about Baltimore?

Here’s what President Donald Trump tweeted about Baltimore’s congressman and his city: “Rep. Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is far worse and more dangerous. His district is considered the worst in the USA.”

August 10, 2019 Columnists

U.S. President Donald Trump waves before boarding Air Force One prior to departing from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on August 9, 2019. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

WILLIAMS: Being a racist is easy today

Years ago, it was hard to be a racist. You had to be fitted for and spend money on a white gown and don a pointy hat. You celebrated racism by getting some burlap, wrapping it around a cross, setting it ablaze and dancing around it carrying torches. Sometimes, as did Lester Maddox, you had to buy axe handles for yourself and your supporters to wield to forcibly turn away black customers from your restaurant. Or, as in the case of Theophilus “Bull” Connor, you had to learn to direct fire hoses and vicious police attack dogs against civil rights demonstrators.

August 1, 2019 Columnists

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press at the White House as he departs for Cincinnati to hold a campaign rally in Washington, D.C, on August 1, 2019. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

WILLIAMS: What's most important?

Let’s think about priorities. Say that you live in one of the dangerous high crime and poor schooling neighbourhoods of cities like Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit or St. Louis. Which is most important to you: doing something about public safety and raising the quality of education or, as most black politicians do, focusing energies upon U.S. President Donald Trump and who among the 20 presidential contenders will lead the Democratic Party? The average American has no inkling about the horrible conditions in which many blacks live. Moreover, they wouldn’t begin to tolerate living under those conditions themselves.

July 22, 2019 Columnists

WILLIAMS: America's free speech crisis

The First Amendment to the American Constitution was proposed by the 1788 Virginia ratification convention during its narrow 89 to 79 vote to ratify the Constitution. Virginia’s resolution held that the free exercise of religion, right to assembly and free speech could not be cancelled, abridged or restrained. These Madisonian principles were eventually ratified by the states on March 1, 1792.

July 15, 2019 Columnists

WILLIAMS: Black education decline

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says that the city’s specialized high schools have a diversity problem. He’s joined by New York City Schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza, educators, students and community leaders who want to fix the diversity problem. I bet you can easily guess what they will do to “improve” the racial mix of students (aka diversity).

June 19, 2019 Columnists

Democratic presidential candidate and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio acknowledges the crowd as he takes the stage at the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council (HTC) headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, June 5, 2019 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

WILLIAMS: Some truths about the history of slavery

The favourite leftist tool for the attack on America’s founding is that slavery was sanctioned. They argue that the founders disregarded the promises of the U.S. Declaration of Independence “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

May 27, 2019 Columnists