The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.

I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, no suppression from government is likely, and in the citadels of the media and the academy, the far left is actually vastly overrepresented.

It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.