.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.

There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.

After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.

Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.