Reparations

“Anyone who wants reparations based on history will have to gerrymander history very carefully. Otherwise, practically everybody would owe reparations to practically everybody else.” – Thomas Sowell

Belief

“A man’s real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.” – George Macdonald

Drug Wars

“What would evidence-based policy look like? The economics points to three principles, none of which involves naval blockades. First, legalize and tax. Prohibition currently functions as an implicit tax of staggering size. Second, invest in treatment and don’t let up....

Holes

“The first law of holes: When you’re in one, stop digging.” – William A. Galston

Modern Art

“It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it’s a painting, and if you can walk around it it’s a sculpture.” – Tom Stoppard

Utopia Dystopia

“The promise of utopia always leads to dystopia—see the Soviet Union, Cuba and California—because self-selecting elites tax the living daylights out of every productive endeavor. And mythical job losses are always used as excuse to implement universal basic...