In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.

What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?

Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.