Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

Louisville, KY - Barack Obama lost Kentucky in 2012 by 23 points, yet the state remains closely divided about re-electing the man whose parliamentary skills uniquely qualify him to restrain Obama's executive overreach. So, Kentucky's Senate contest is a constitutional moment that will determine whether the separation of powers will be reasserted by a Congress revitalized by restoration of the Senate's dignity.