Just as the unleashing of ideas and myths in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries cleared the way for endless changes in state and social structures, so the subsequent pinning down and splitting up of language into feudal states has now made it impossible for the citizen to participate seriously in society. The inviting humanist irony of the early days has given way to the off-putting rational cynicism and sloganeering of our time.

[T]he ideal of the rugged individual opening up the American West is still applied as an essential truth to ten million citizens living in the small area of Ne…

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

We talk endlessly of the individual and of individualism, for example, when any sensible glance at major issues indicates that we live in an era of great confo…

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; gover…

Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.