Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.