The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!

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

So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we must seize the moment,” the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats.

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

Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.