John Leo

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

— John Leo

Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less…

— John Leo

“You cannot run a scociety or cope with it’s problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.”

— John Leo

Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged…

— John Leo

The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

— John Leo

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

— John Leo

[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,…

— John Leo

I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled…

— John Leo

Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away?

— John Leo

Churches should not be directly involved in politics.

— John Leo

In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living."…

— John Leo

No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.

— John Leo

The political terms 'will' and 'popular will' have a long track record in Western history going back to Rousseau. That record is…

— John Leo

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

The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most…

— John Leo

Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

— John Leo

The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long…

— John Leo

By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies,…

— John Leo

We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.

— John Leo

... a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.

— John Leo

If winning is the only value, why debate when you can suppress?

— John Leo