I really think of [Donald] Trump erratic. I think that was the big message that came out. The positive agenda for Hillary [Clinton] was a little less vibrant.

The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

People have been raised in a morality that says, "If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK."

My colleague Ross Douthat wrote that any time you give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, he always lets you down.

I think there are two basic approaches you can use for campaign finance. One is complete openness, everybody knows absolutely everything, but no limits. But you let people decide.The other is just have a national public system.

People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.

I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.