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

For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.

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

We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .

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.

We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.

While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.