Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.

There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

I think, over the last couple of years, the written word has made a comeback on the Internet. For example, I'm seeing more long-form narrative experiments there. The overall noise level, however, continues to increase. Do we really need TV screens to watch when we pump gas? Really?