Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value. — 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 Image
Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less likely to go to church, do volunteer work or put down roots in a community. Journalists are over-represented in ZIP code areas where residents are twice as likely as other Americans to rent foreign movies, drink Chablis, own… — 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 Image
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 Image
The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else. — John Leo Copy Share Image
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 Image
[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 end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been… — 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 Image
Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away? — John Leo Copy Share Image
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 Image
No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz. — John Leo Copy Share Image
