When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.

Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and exercise, countless powers they aren't entitled to.

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.

We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every aspect of human life and society. Some people regard this as good and "progressive," others regard it as tyrannical; but either way, it's a fact, a transformation as great as, say, the Industrial Revolution. Absolutely nothing is now beyond the scope of State power.

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.

Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.