Sometimes it's worthwhile staging a fight you can't win.

Obama doesn't get a Syria war but does distract everybody.

Bad moral teaching takes decades to change.

Jonathan Haidt's book The Righteous Mind grants keen insights into today's politics.

Islamist rulers are incompetent as well as tyrannical.

China is weaker than it appears and no real threat to us - yet.

Government cameras already know everywhere your car has been.

A settlement where nobody can find the victims and lawyers get all the money isn't justice.

How you see the verdict reveals which America you are in.

Democracy won't grow in rocky ground.