Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their lo….

You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo ….

Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices..

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to m….

Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own time, the costs of war, or ju….

When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thin….

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is l….

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of d….

The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed largely of Islamic militants from ….

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much..

no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled..

Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine..

We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come. The odd thing is that the right, even when it is i….

James Bond in his Sean Connery days ... was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat….

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical proble….

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them..

There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three centurie….

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early churc….

The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commo….

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't ev….

The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large as the Pentagon's bu….