The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.

It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say - which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselves.

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.

Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.