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.

The English language is not always the President's friend.

Still, it is not perverse to wonder whether the spectacle of America, currently learning a lesson - one that conservatives should not have to learn on the job - about the limits of power to subdue an unruly world, has emboldened many enemies.

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.