Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.