Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

When I started criticizing Donald Trump when he got more popular on the right, one of the most things that I discovered was how many people were mad at me for not living down to their expectations. There are a lot of pundits on the right who think their job is to be a cheerleader for their team. That is not my job. My job is to tell the truth as I see it, and that is gotten a lot of people angry.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.