One Can Be Unhappy Before Eating Caviar,

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 The Experience Of Love Is So Valuable It Can Never Be Entirely Undone By The Ultimate Disenchantment.

Somehow, The Fact That More Poor People Are On Welfare, Receiving More Generous Payments, Does Not Seem To Have Made This Country A Nice Place To Live - Not Even For The Poor On Welfare, Whose Condition Seems Not Noticeably Better Than When They Were Poor And Off Welfare. Something Appears To Have Gone Wrong; A Liberal And Compassionate Social Policy Has Bred All Sorts Of Unanticipated And Perverse Consequences.

There Is Nothing Like A Parade To Elicit The Proper Respect For The Military From The Populace.

A Conservative Is A Liberal Mugged By Reality.

It Is Ironic To Watch The Churches, Including Large Sections Of My Own Religion, Surrendering To The Spirit Of Modernity At The Very Moment When Modernity Itself Is Undergoing A Kind Of Spiritual Collapse.