Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.