We still are America though. We're still a country that is a country of social mobility. We're still a country of immigrants. We're still a country with common ancestors. And reviving the civics of America and the idea that we're going to be united, at least not right now, but in some common future, and talking in that hopeful way that Martin Luther King did, that Abraham Lincoln did, seems to me that's the way.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

When you talk about the problem of illegal immigration, people are angry and polarized. When you talk about the answers, the debate gets a little different.

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

I think the Barack Obama position and the majority position of American Jews and a lot of Americans is a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine. Settlements get in the way of that. If they're not stopped soon, there is no prospect for that type of solution.

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.