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

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.

It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen.