All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?

The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that do not give them that.

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.

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

The New York times' long-standing motto, 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' should be changed to reflect today's reality: 'Manufacturing News to Fit an Ideology.'

To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.