Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.

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Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the...

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the...

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be...

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be...

In the lexicon of the political class, the word sacrifice means that the citizens are...

In the lexicon of the political class, the word sacrifice means that the citizens are...

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of...

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of...

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American...

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American...

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he...

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he...

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it...

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it...

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy...

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy...

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing...

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing...

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only...

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only...

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven...

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven...

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between...

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between...

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.