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.
Michael MandelbaumThe attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.
Michael MandelbaumFootball is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
Michael MandelbaumLet me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
Michael Mandelbaum