Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience..

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is non….

Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics..

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues..

Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is fou….

The cost of appearing with a bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enoug….

Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. B….

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised..

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout '….

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant..

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience..

In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are dra….

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'..

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies..

The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there….

If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.)….

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting..

Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of peop….

I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on. Well, the ….

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people..

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money..