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

Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market - contrary to rhetoric.

If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they-and we all-can be 'liberated.' The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions-the vision-which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback.

A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.