The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.