Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

If you subsidize apples, you get more apples; if you subsidize unemployment, you get more of it.

Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.