5 thoughts on “Walter Williams”

  1. It was with sadness that I read of Dr Williams’ passing but that fate awaits us all. He will be sorely missed, but so long as his writings are available, he has not completely left us. May Dr. Sewall live for many more years to continue sharing his wisdom. We need his wisdom now more than ever.

  2. One thing I had never heard about Williams before – he was a neighbor of Bill Cosby growing up and he knew the real Fat Albert and Old Weird Harold. Probably not the most important thing about the man, of course.

    But Walter Williams was one of my teachers, through indirect means. Read his columns for years when I was figuring out how the world worked.

  3. It’s a shame we won’t get to read Williams’s comments about this:

    “[NASDAQ] filed a proposal with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday that would require listed companies to have at least one woman on their boards, in addition to a director who is a racial minority or one who self-identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer.”

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/nasdaq-proposes-board-diversity-rule-for-listed-companies-11606829244

  4. Most memorable Williams quote, to me, is something I heard him say at a lecture. He said he preferred the free market to statism because he thought seduction was preferable to rape. The free market/seduction, he said, was essentially “you do something good for me and I’ll do something good for you;” whereas statist economies and rape were based on, “you do something good for me, or I’ll do something bad to you,”

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