Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.

Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice.

Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.