Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.