FROM THE ARCHIVES.

• Position: Quotes from notable personalities

If a student doesn't subscribe to the campus orthodoxy, the likely effect is not to convert her but to alienate her from intellectual life. Others learn only about a narrow range of ideas. One woman, a Ph.D. student in the social sciences at a Midwestern university, told me recently that when she started reading conservative, libertarian, or otherwise heretical blogs, 'it was a whole perspective I had never been exposed to before in anything other than caricature.'

CATHY YOUNG

The Impact of Academic Bias

As soon as the Border Patrol built the wall in San Diego, coyotes started bringing migrants to other crossing points. Rather than stopping entries, the barrier merely shifted traffic to other parts of the border. Suddenly, border residents in Texas and Arizona saw a spike of illegal crossings. Panic ensued. So authorities built more walls, shifting the traffic into the more remote desert and mountain regions. Now, the Border Patrol estimates, about 40 percent of all migrants entering the U.S. illegally in the Southwest go through Arizona--most through the desert areas where Vasquez and I met Ramirez and his friends.

MALIA POLITZER

It's Our Job To Stop That Dream'

The market is not a place or a person or a conspiracy. It is a process--a continuously adapting system of trial and error, experiment and feedback, freedom and responsibility. It rewards both discipline and risk taking, creativity and deferred gratification, foresight and learning from the past. The market process makes possible not only commercial activity but the countless voluntary associations that arise spontaneously when people are allowed the freedom to form their own bonds. Because it depends not on predetermined status but on contract--on choice and consent--the market is liberating. But it is not, as its critics charge, 'atomistic,' except in the sense that atoms have a tendency to form molecules, which in turn create larger structures.

The market does, however, undermine central authority. Though the organizations created within it may contain many hierarchies and authorities of their own, the market process does not establish one best way.

VIRGINIA POSTREL

Laissez Fear

In the broadest sense, your informational privacy has been violated when someone knows something about you that you don't want them to know. Traditionally, the 'someone' has been the government, as represented in fiction by Big Brother and in real life by J. Edgar Hoover. But in recent...