Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

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

Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.

I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.