Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

Twenty minutes into his presidency, Donald Trump, who is always claiming to have made, or to be about to make, astonishing history, had done so. Living down to expectations, he had delivered the most dreadful inaugural address in history.

It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic realities. It has dramatized environmentalism's descent into infantilism.

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

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.