One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.