The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you.

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.