Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value.

Even the continents drift.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.