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

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

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.

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

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

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.