This year's episode of Civility Strikes Back relates to the baggy-pants half-moon.

It is unfair, and it is unconstitutional.

Why are we allowing an Islamic public school, teaching intifada, in New York City? Don't we already have enough terrorists?

Is American citizenship of such little concern that we don't mind it being awarded as the result of a crime?

Mr. Cho's victims' families shouldn't be suing Virginia Tech; all it would accomplish is to enrich greedly lawyers while doing nothing useful.

The trouble is, the system was designed to keep a record of who was where, when.

It is better not to have a rule at all, than to have one which is not taken seriously, because disregarding the rules grows habitual.

Our commencement essay.