Post by robeiae on Dec 3, 2020 8:25:08 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/corner/walter-williams-r-i-p/
Sowell weighs in (they were great friends): townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2020/12/02/walter-e-williams-19362020-n2580965
Other people are posting tributes, as well. Frankly, it's like a meeting of the "I Hate Paul Krugman Club."
Anyway, I read Williams' stuff. It's okay, mostly it's kind of Sowell-adjacent. But I do remember him guest-hosting Limbaugh's show. Whenever he was slated to do that, I always tried to listen, because he was very entertaining and would actually teach stuff on the air, no lie. Sowell is absolutely right about Williams and teaching.
Anyway, godspeed Walter.
The great economist and freedom fighter Walter Williams has died. This is an incredibly sad news. Walter was a great communicator of ideas and a prolific, provocative and uncompromising writer. He was the John M. Olin distinguished professor of economics at George Mason University. His voice, his happy-warrior demeanor, his cosmopolitan views, his endless fight on behalf of those with no political voices, and his generosity to all of us at Mason will be missed.
Sowell weighs in (they were great friends): townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2020/12/02/walter-e-williams-19362020-n2580965
Walter Williams loved teaching. Unlike too many other teachers today, he made it a point never to impose his opinions on his students. Those who read his syndicated newspaper columns know that he expressed his opinions boldly and unequivocally there. But not in the classroom.
Walter once said he hoped that, on the day he died, he would have taught a class that day. And that is just the way it was, when he died on Wednesday, December 2, 2020.
He was my best friend for half a century. There was no one I trusted more or whose integrity I respected more. Since he was younger than me, I chose him to be my literary executor, to take control of my books after I was gone.
But his death is a reminder that no one really has anything to say about such things.
As an economist, Walter Williams never got the credit he deserved. His book "Race and Economics" is a must-read introduction to the subject. Amazon has it ranked 5th in sales among civil rights books, 9 years after it was published.
Walter once said he hoped that, on the day he died, he would have taught a class that day. And that is just the way it was, when he died on Wednesday, December 2, 2020.
He was my best friend for half a century. There was no one I trusted more or whose integrity I respected more. Since he was younger than me, I chose him to be my literary executor, to take control of my books after I was gone.
But his death is a reminder that no one really has anything to say about such things.
As an economist, Walter Williams never got the credit he deserved. His book "Race and Economics" is a must-read introduction to the subject. Amazon has it ranked 5th in sales among civil rights books, 9 years after it was published.
Anyway, I read Williams' stuff. It's okay, mostly it's kind of Sowell-adjacent. But I do remember him guest-hosting Limbaugh's show. Whenever he was slated to do that, I always tried to listen, because he was very entertaining and would actually teach stuff on the air, no lie. Sowell is absolutely right about Williams and teaching.
Anyway, godspeed Walter.