But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

I believe Western culture - rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. - is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria. Follow the traffic. I support immigration, but with assimilation.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

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.

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.