You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don't care much about Kuwait.

International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.

Donald Trump would never belong to a church that required a ten percent hit. He's too smart.

I read a lot of conservatives. They are thoughtful and intelligent and annoying, and I always read them because they have viewpoints that challenge my own, even thought they are wrong. But this does me no good because, being intelligent and sophisticated human beings, they are all contemptuous of Trump. They hate him. They find him...vulgar.

The horrifying thing is that nearly half of America seems in synch with xenophobia and race-baiting.

I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.

Politics is how you think about life itself.