America is addicted to wars of distraction.

The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.