Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

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

Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called "self-interestedness". This was not a portrait of man "warts and all". It was all wart - except that the dominating attribute was not considered a blemish.