Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society.

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

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

I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced.

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.