No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.

The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words that the government allows to be printed on any product: "Some assembly required."

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor.

If winning is the only value, why debate when you can suppress?

Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away?

The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.