In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for …