A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

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.

Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.