Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.