In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.
Peggy NoonanI think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
Peggy NoonanIt's better for the country when each party looks like it stands for something serious, for some big things, but they're not narrow and they're not bought.
Peggy Noonan