...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.

Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.

"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.

The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.