The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.