For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.

We live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office.

Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.

It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.

Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can at least convert them to the boggiest of soft-left clichés, on the grounds that if Jesus were alive today he’d most likely be a gay Anglican bishop in a committed relationship driving around in an environmentally friendly car with an “Arms are for Hugging” sticker on the way to an interfaith dialogue with a Wiccan and a couple of Wahhabi imams.