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.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.

Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis.

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

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

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.