Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.