I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i.e., more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not.

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly