I'm of course nostalgic for Barack Obama all of a sudden.

Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.

You have got to have two things in education reform. You have got to have some flexibility, so people can figure out what to do. But you also have to have accountable, basically what the Common Core standards were, some sort of set of national standards, so we can measure.

I generally think the president [Donald Trump] should get his Cabinet picks, unless they're egregiously out of the range, either ethically or intellectually out of the range of what's acceptable.

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.