Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests and talents pertinent to the court's role. Otherwise the sound principle of substantial deference to a president's choice of judicial nominees will dissolve into a rationalization for senatorial abdication of the duty to hold presidents to some standards of seriousness that will prevent them from reducing the Supreme Court to a private plaything useful for fulfilling whims on behalf of friends.

We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children