All our confidence in our ability to act collectively is being undermined, with the subtext message Whatever it is, the private sector can do it better. Never mind that there's no evidence for this. Never mind, for instance, that the private US health-care system is 40 percent more expensive per capita than the Canadian public system, even though the Canadian system provides full coverage for all Canadians and the American system leaves some forty-three million without any coverage at all. This isn't because Canadians are smarter than Americans - it's because we have a public system and they don't.

[George W.] Bush explained that he wasn't willing to take the steps outlined in the Kyoto accords - steps that both the scientific world and the international …

'Short-term inequality remains a problem,' writes [right-wing scholar Dinesh] D'Souza... 'but is it a problem we can live with?' ...After searching his soul fo…

Those tempted to slough off the helpful role of the state [in the earning of private property] should... 'compare the fortune accumulated by Cornelius Vanderbi…

Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage.

Hours of research can cut months of field work. (Full quote: 'In today's world, time is the most expensive part of an expedition. Man hours spent in the archiv…

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.