Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.

Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

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?