A Commonplace Of Political Rhetoric Has It

The Soviet Union Came Apart Along Ethnic Lines. The Most Important Factor In This Breakup Was The Disinclination Of Slavic Ukraine To Continue Under A Regime Dominated By Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia Came Apart Also, Beginning With A Brutal Clash Between Serbia And Croatia, Here Again 'nations' With Only The Smallest Differences In Genealogy; With, Indeed, Practically A Common Language. Ethnic Conflict Does Not Require Great Differences; Small Will Do.

Somehow Liberals Have Been Unable To Acquire From Life What Conservatives Seem To Be Endowed With At Birth: Namely, A Healthy Skepticism Of The Powers Of Government Agencies To Do Good.

Everyone Is Entitled To His Own Opinion, But Not His Own Facts.

Citizen Participation Is A Device Whereby Public Officials Induce Nonpublic Individuals To Act In A Way The Officials Desire.

The United States In The 1980s May Be The First Society In History In Which Children Are Distinctly Worse Off Than Adults.