It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about running down America. Anti-Americanism - a stand-in for hatred of Western civilization - became the stuff of sophisticates and intellectuals as never before. Flag burners became the truest "patriots" because dissent - not just from partisan politics, but the American project itself - became the highest virtue.

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.