I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy, — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was incompatible with democracy, and I don't think that there is a good theoretical or empirical… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake,… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible. — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny -… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples can't produce… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does it follow… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship.… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
