One of the things that really has gone wrong in modern politics, one of the things that made Trump possible was that many people have a view of politics as something dramatic and exciting and thrilling and emotional.

America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.

The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.

The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.

When we talk about authoritarianism, we conjure up out-of-date visions from the 1930s. But we are no more likely to do authoritarian government the way they did in the 1930s then we're likely to address or talk or do any of our other business in the way they did it in the 1930s.

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.