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

[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to make people do and be what liberals want. And that makes all the difference in the world.

Look, I think liberals have reasonable gripes with Fox News. It does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but also in its story selection (which is fine by me) and elsewhere. But it's worth remembering that Fox is less a bastion of ideological conservatism and more a populist, tabloidy network.

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

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

Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.