Where Credit Is Due Where Credit Is Due
To view education as a profit-making business is to attack the lifelong love of learning.
Apr 3, 2008 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
House of Cards House of Cards
It would be truly tragic if John McCain strolls into the White House while we argue over who has it worse, black men or white women.
Mar 6, 2008 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Movin’ On Up Movin’ On Up
Now that we've crested the mountaintop, let's have some politically incorrect dreams.
Feb 7, 2008 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
American Pie American Pie
Don't let the media or the right-wing spinmeisters reduce our first-ever serious black and female presidential candidates to stereotypes.
Jan 10, 2008 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Audacity of Oprah The Audacity of Oprah
The combined power of Oprah & Obama could reinvigorate our embattled political landscape.
Dec 6, 2007 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Judicial Activism in a Time of No Irony Judicial Activism in a Time of No Irony
Contemplating Mukasey, Musharraf and the imprisoned lawyers of Pakistan: how easily a modern liberal democracy can slide into a totalitarian state.
Nov 8, 2007 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Strange Culture Strange Culture
If the stuff of life is corporatized, does art about it become a form of interference in business?
Oct 11, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams
Playing With Numbers Playing With Numbers
The Bush Administration's Civil Rights Commission would like us to believe that affirmative action harms black students by placing them in situations where they can't keep up.
Sep 13, 2007 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Protect Alberto Gonzales Act of 2007 The Protect Alberto Gonzales Act of 2007
Congress bows to Bush and passes a law that allows blanket data-mining of all phone calls or e-mail by anyone, anywhere.
Aug 9, 2007 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Mourning in America Mourning in America
As the Supreme Court rules public schools cannot take voluntary action to overcome racial inequality, what's surprising is the lack of outcry.
Jul 12, 2007 / Column / Patricia J. Williams