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

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There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity...

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity...

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

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.

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...

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

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...

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...

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

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...

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

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

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...

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

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...

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 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...

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...

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...