The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.