How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once an arrow soaring skyward and an oak planted firmly in the ground? The meritocratic culture hones strivers on every aspect of their lives save one - how to cultivate character.

For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a strong arm really, and so that one core theme.

Of those two [Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump], I do think that the - right now, at least in my mind, the Democratic theme is eclipsing the Republican one.

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.

The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.