When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.

Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?

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.

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.