The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.

Although much of the media have their antennae out to pick up anything that might be construed as racism against blacks, they resolutely ignore even the most blatant racism by blacks against others.

The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way out on a limb. They've brought it on by highly restrictive building policies, which have caused housing prices to skyrocket artificially. And they've brought it on by the Community Reinvestment Act, which presumes that politicians are better able to tell investors where to put their money than the investors themselves are. When you put all that together, you get something like what you have.

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.

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.