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

Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

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

In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.

We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.