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

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

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

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

One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them.

John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.

It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and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