We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely project meaningful force to their own borders while the nickel 'n' dime basket-cases go nuclear.

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

We live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office.

When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?