If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.

The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really.

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

Confidence is the public face of competence.