In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

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

Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained, and a Pyrrhic victory that in many ways contributed to the end of the Empire.

The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.