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

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.

A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.