All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.

The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions.