Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.

Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.

Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.

Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.