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

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

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

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.