The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

Infinite horizons belong to those who have infinite imagination!

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.

Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond.

God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.