Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.