A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.

Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.