The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material….

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success..

In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compas….

For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions of ….

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely..

The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going….

The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to the validity o….

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide..

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom..

Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destro….

As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essen….