The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.

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.

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

The case for democracy is not esthetic.

Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.

There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.