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.

There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.

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

What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

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.

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.