This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

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

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.