American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world.

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.

Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.

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

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today.