In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

The more women succeed and rise up into positions of power, the more remote they become from actual masculine energy.