The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

An alloy of innocence and arrogance, young (Ted) Williams came to Boston when it had four morning and four evening local newspapers engaged in perpetual circulation wars. He became grist for their mills, and his wars with the sportswriters brought out the worst in him, and cost him. He won two Most Valuable Player Awards and finished second four times. Several of those times he would have won had he not had such poisonous relations with the voting press.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.