The Law Of Unintended Consequences Is The

American Empire- It Is An Empire That Lacks The Drive To Export Its Capital, Its People And Its Culture To Those Backward Regions Which Need Them Most Urgently And Which, If They Are Neglected, Will Breed The Greatest Threats To Its Security. It Is An Empire, In Short, That Dare Not Speak Its Name. It Is An Empire In Denial.

If Young Men Have Jobs - Or The Prospects Of Jobs - They Are Less Likely To Take Up Arms, They Are Less Likely To Join The Resistance.

If The Financial System Has A Defect, It Is That It Reflects And Magnifies What We Human Beings Are Like. Money Amplifies Our Tendency To Overreact, To Swing From Exuberance When Things Are Going Well To Deep Depression When They Go Wrong. Booms And Busts Are Products, At Root, Of Our Emotional Volatility.

I Can't Imagine Having A Conversation About 'celebrity Big Brother' In Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I Refuse To Accept That Western Civilization Is Like Some Hopeless Old Version Of Microsoft Dos, Doomed To Freeze, Then Crash. I Still Cling To The Hope That The United States Is The Mac To Europe's Pc, And That If One Part Of The West Can Successfully Update And Reboot Itself, It's America.