Michael Kinsley

In recurring episodes over the next couple of decades, the minority view gradually won. A profusion of factors differentiates each case from…

— Michael Kinsley

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political…

— Michael Kinsley

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

— Michael Kinsley

There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.

— Michael Kinsley

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

— Michael Kinsley

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

— Michael Kinsley

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start…

— Michael Kinsley

A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.

— Michael Kinsley

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and…

— Michael Kinsley