The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.

Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.

Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

We love your adherence to democratic principles.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.