In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer… offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is… — John Leo Copy Share Image
Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative. — John Leo Copy Share
Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less likely to… — John Leo Copy Share
“You cannot run a scociety or cope with it’s problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.” — John Leo Copy Share
Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young… — John Leo Copy Share
You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do. — John Leo Copy Share
[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no… — John Leo Copy Share
I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on… — John Leo Copy Share
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer… offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our… — John Leo Copy Share
No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz. — John Leo Copy Share
The political terms 'will' and 'popular will' have a long track record in Western history going back to Rousseau. That record is profoundly anti-democratic,… — John Leo Copy Share
Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds. — John Leo Copy Share
The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words… — John Leo Copy Share
