Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.

In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15 we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."

I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.