Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

By the end of the 20th century, "liberals" had again discredited themselves, to the point where they went back to calling themselves "progressives" to escape their past, much as people do when they declare bankruptcy.

The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.

Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.

Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.