Politicians exploit public ignorance. Few areas of public ignorance provide as many opportunities for political demagoguery as taxation. Today some politicians argue that the rich must pay their fair ...

If you need an accurate update on some of the madness at the nation’s institutions of higher learning, check out Minding the Campus, a nonprofit independent organization. John Leo, its editor in chief ...

Here's part of President Donald Trump's speech in Poland: "The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive. Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at ...

I met economist and professor Walter Williams when I interviewed him while hosting a local TV show in Cleveland. We discussed a number of topics but focused on race-based preferences, aka affirmative ...

The ugliness that we recently have witnessed including rioting, billions of dollars of property destruction, assaults, murders and grossly stupid claims about our nation has its origins on college ...

Gun control did not become politically acceptable until the Gun Control Act of 1968, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The law's primary focus was to regulate commerce in firearms by ...

Most of our nation's great problems, including our economic problems, have as their root decaying moral values. Whether we have the stomach to own up to it or not, we have become an immoral people ...

An open letter to Walter E. Williams: I have read your columns appearing in the Southeast Missourian the past 10 years and have a bulging file testifying to my personal appreciation for your ...