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

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.

A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

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

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.

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