The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism. - Irving Kristol

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

Joining a radical movement when one is young is very much like falling in love when one is young. The girl may turn out to be rotten, but the experience of love is so valuable it can never be entirely undone by the ultimate disenchantment.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.