One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.

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.

If a word means everything, then in means nothing.

The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.

People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.