Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Reason

    Walter Williams, RIP

    Jan 21, 2021 3 minutes
    INTERVIEW BY NICK GILLESPIE

    WALTER WILLIAMS, THE free market economist and iconoclast, died in December at the age of 84. The author of 13 books, Williams was best known for 1982’s The State Against Blacks, which documented how government interference in the market has been especially harmful to African Americans.

    Born in 1936, Williams grew up in the Richard Allen Homes, one of Philadelphia’s first housing projects. When he was a small child, his father left his family. He

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Reason

    Reason3 min read
    Brickbats
    In England, the Dacorum Borough Council issued fines for littering to multiple men who pulled off the road in a rural area to urinate, including one with a weakened prostate. A BBC report later found the council had issued hundreds of fines for publi
    Reason8 min read
    The Future Of AI Is Helping Us Discover The Past
    IN FEBRUARY, GOOGLE released an upgraded version of its Gemini artificial intelligence model. It quickly became a publicity disaster, as people discovered that requests for images of Vikings generated tough-looking Africans while pictures of Nazi sol
    Reason5 min read
    The Complicated History of the Spy in Your Pocket
    ACOP PULLED over Ivan Lopez in Somerton, Arizona, a small town near the Mexican border. The officer claimed that Lopez had a broken taillight and had been speeding. A drug-sniffing dog then indicated possible contraband; police searched his truck and

    Related Books & Audiobooks