''Entitlement' is not only the opposite of achievement, it undermines incentives to do all the hard work that leads to achievement. It is the people who were born and raised in the welfare state atmosphere who seem to have great difficulty finding jobs.'

The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in e…

'To me, the fact that I have never killed an editor is proof that the death penalty deters.'

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - cri…