I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.

What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is a bad thing today? Well, there is a sense in which that answer is right. There's a sense in which free immigration, in the same sense as we had it before 1914 is not possible today. Why not?

The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics.

You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.