One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care

Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it's unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside. Or consider a sidewalk. Some litter accumulates. Soon, more litter accumulates. Eventually, people even start leaving bags of trash from take-out restaurants there or even break into cars.

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.