The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.

Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.

Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you’ve been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we’re hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it.

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy.

If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual - a slow-motion erosion of America's relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board.... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation's historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.