Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.
Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.
The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.