As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated as having. It's certainly true of Shakespeare.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.

Faust seems to have exerted a big influence on Star Wars. You know, the "give up your soul for immortality" or something.

Well, I've liked Star Wars since the late '70s. I liked it a lot.

Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action.