Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.

Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.

I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.

Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?