...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.

I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.

The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.

California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.