The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner.
We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.
We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.
In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.