New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

Life imitates art -- but badly.