When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends' fathers probably found Molly very cute.

I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.

Being "Jewish" is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.

Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.

Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.

We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don't want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.