Twenty minutes into his presidency, Donald Trump, who is always claiming to have made, or to be about to make, astonishing history, had done so. Living down to expectations, he had delivered the most dreadful inaugural address in history.

Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'