According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

The case for democracy is not esthetic.

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.

I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.

Twenty minutes into his presidency, Donald Trump, who is always claiming to have made, or to be about to make, astonishing history, had done so. Living down to expectations, he had delivered the most dreadful inaugural address in history.