We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.