Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.
Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.
Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
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.
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.