Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.