I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on. Well, the Fugitive Slave Act was the law, separate but equal was the law, lots of things are the law and then we change them.

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

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

Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.

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

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.