The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through.

There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable. They still sound reasonable, in large part, because so many of them can be leveled against the federal government of the United States.

Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind.

You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.