As The Family Goes, So Go The

Marriage Orients Men And Women Toward The Future, Asking Them Not Just To Commit To Each Other But To Plan, To Earn, To Save, And To Devote Themselves To Advancing Their Children's Prospects.

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

There Is One Unmistakable Lesson In American History; A Community That Allows A Large Number Of Young Men To Grow Up In Broken Families, Dominated By Women, Never Acquiring Any Stable Relationship To Male Authority, Never Acquiring Any Set Of Rational Expectations About The Future - That Community Asks For And Gets Chaos.

Am I Embarrassed To Speak For A Less Than Perfect Democracy? Not One Bit. Find Me A Better One. Do I Suppose There Are Societies Which Are Free Of Sin? No, I Don't. Do I Think Ours Is, On Balance, Incomparably The Most Hopeful Set Of Human Relations The World Has? Yes, I Do.

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.