The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.

No one is responsible under liberalism.

It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.