Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric.

Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.

Louisville, KY - Barack Obama lost Kentucky in 2012 by 23 points, yet the state remains closely divided about re-electing the man whose parliamentary skills uniquely qualify him to restrain Obama's executive overreach. So, Kentucky's Senate contest is a constitutional moment that will determine whether the separation of powers will be reasserted by a Congress revitalized by restoration of the Senate's dignity.

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children