It is not the dignitaries who are the real cause of hope, however. What is an enormously refreshing and hopeful sign is to see the young people who make up the membership of the Federalist Society. Earnest, intelligent, and unpretentious, these are the young men and women of whom any nation and any age could be proud.

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

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

The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.