I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

We are approaching levels - if we're not beyond levels - of threshold for the number of messages that consumers can take in in a given day. There is a kind of hunger for some kind of new approach to getting the word out about something.

So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law.

The difference isn't resources, it's attitude.

It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.