Walter Williams has long been an intellectual hero to me. I first started reading his stuff back in the day when I was in college and in short order found myself completely hooked. What grabbed me was how Dr. Williams – he’s an economics professor at George Mason University – would start with a few simple ideas and with rigorous logic apply them to the popular nostrums of the day. The nostrums didn’t stand a chance. Race and gender quotas, environmentalism, deficit spending, social welfare programs, bureaucratic regulation, and political correctness all fell before his pen. I was stunned. In many ways reading his columns began the process of reclaiming my mind after many years spent detesting anything intellectual.
John Robbins also respected Dr. Williams’ work. Writing in a book review in The Freeman, Robbins stated about Dr. Williams that,
In an age of philosophical and moral relativism and BOMFOG (the ubiquitous and false platitudes about unity in the brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God), Dr. Williams’s honesty and analysis may be painful for some delicate souls. “Regardless of whose sensibilities are offended,” he writes, “I do not hesitate to call things as I see them. Why? Because I care about our country and fear for its future as a free and prosperous nation.” More importantly, Dr. Williams cares about truth.
Dr Williams cares about the truth. That’s high praise indeed. If you haven’t read Dr. Williams work, you’re in for a treat. Here’s a good example to get you started.
Lux Lucet 
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