I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy..

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. M….

A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, ….

As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other peop….

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical p….

Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted….

I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship. Bu….

But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Part….

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible..

Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output.

The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couple….

The confidentiality of the judicial process would not matter greatly to an understanding and evaluation of the legal system if the consequences of ju….

I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake, which is that deregulatio….

Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and judgi….

We have a tendency to assume people are a unity, and thus good people all good, etc. But the fact that Hitler was good to dogs and children isn't a ….

The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go dig….

If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does it follow that God exists? ….

It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here….