Quotes of the day

The remarkable thing about the Venkatesan affair, to me, is that her students cared enough to argue. Normally they would express their boredom with the material by answering emails on their laptops or falling asleep. But here they staged a rebellion, a French Counter-Revolution against Professor Defarge. Maybe, despite the professor's best efforts, there's life in American colleges yet.--Joseph Rago

Health care, the fastest growing major sector of the economy, is also the sector that is increasingly being absorbed by the government. Extrapolating current trends, Medicare alone would be most of GDP in another generation or so. It boggles my mind how someone can not be worried about too much government.--Arnold Kling

But the problem isn't politicians -- it's politics. Politics won't allow for the truth. And we can't blame the politicians for that. Imagine what even a little truth would sound like on today's campaign trail: "No, I can't fix public education. The problem isn't the teachers unions or a lack of funding for salaries, vouchers or more computer equipment The problem is your kids!"--P.J. O'Rourke