The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and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

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.