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

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

If politics were like sports, we could ask Israel to trade us Benjamin Netanyahu for Barack Obama. Of course, we would have to throw in trillions of dollars to get Israel to agree to the deal, but it would be money well spent.

Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.

Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.