Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

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.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

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

The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring training in Arizona and Florida, Major League Baseball, taking pity on traumatized pitchers, is directing umpires to enforce the strike zone.