Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it…

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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...

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

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

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

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

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

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...

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...

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

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...

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...

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...

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's...

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's...

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...

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...

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.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

History knows no resting place and no plateaus

History knows no resting place and no plateaus