There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.

The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.