We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

Donald Trump enters office with historically low approval ratings, that's where the battle could get fought. If the country turns against him, his Republican adversaries could feel emboldened.

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate with Reagan.

We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.

Donald Trump very clearly said America first. That is a traditional right wing, but also very isolationist. That takes us back to the era of the 1920s, when there were immigration restrictions, and also to the isolationism before World War II.