Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

There's a ton of academic literature that shows people are much more critical of female leaders than they are of male leaders. They're much less tolerant of female ambition, much more threatened by female power.

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.

It's easy to see why conservatives would be salivating at the thought of a Hillary primary challenge. Presidents who face serious primary challenges—Ford, Carter, Bush I—almost always lose. The last president who lost reelection without a serious primary challenge, by contrast, was Herbert Hoover. But in truth, the chances that Obama will face a primary challenge are vanishingly slim, and the chances that he will lose reelection only slightly higher. No wonder conservatives are fantasizing about Hillary Clinton taking down Barack Obama. If she doesn't, it's unlikely they will.

There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.