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

You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

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

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

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.