What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.

The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.