Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.

However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of a beast attached to the neck of living prey. This is not an idly chosen figure of speech. War spreads and perpetuates itself through a dynamic that often seems independent of human will. It has, as we like to say of things we do not fully understand, 'a life of its own.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

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

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!