Honoring Walter Williams: A Mainstay of My Career
Walter Williams’ unflagging contribution to the defense of the principles of individual liberty and the free market economy was also a contribution to my effort to surmount academic obstacles to my own defense of those principles.
After more than a decade of writing essays in defense of the principles of individualism and critical of the collectivist assumptions of the civil rights movement, I was delighted to learn that from their academic posts Walter and Thomas Sowell were relentlessly making the case for economic freedom and debunking fallacies about race relations, black history and capitalism.
As I made my way through the hostile intellectual ter
Article from LewRockwell
