The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

It is essential that Christians understand this: Every Jew - secular, religious, assimilated, left-wing, right-wing - fears being killed because he is Jewish. This is the best-kept secret about Jews, who are widely perceived as inordinately secure and powerful. But it is the only universally held sentiment among Jews.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do.

There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.

There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims.

Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.