The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

I do think American culture has shifted a little bit away from the contemplative more toward the visual, more toward the emotional, and more toward the expressive. I don't think there's a lot that can be done about that. We just have to understand that it's the product of technology and of the way people live now.

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.

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