Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a lot of us, but a respectable senator for a long period of time.

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.

I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a lot of defenders. The idea that they're going to completely explode the deficit is just a party killer for the Republican parties.

The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

The Republican Party has become an ethnic nationalist party.

I think Donald Trump is going to find it very hard to do the kind of massive change he wants.