The number of CEOs voluntarily leaving their jobs or being forced out spiked early. Many of those companies will be turning to an interim CEO to take the reins. These temporary leaders are increasingly in demand, according to those who watch corner office trends.

I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.

I'm just imagining some of [Mark Lilla] fellow liberals being rather angry at you saying such a thing [that Democrats and liberals, more generally, lost a lot of political capital ].

Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.

People don't know where they stand and what they're going to lose, and that makes things uncertain. The political parties try to meld people together, but then that becomes a problem. There are parallels here, to American cities, which, in the '80s, with massive rural to urban migration, saw incredible amounts of violence.

We have 31 Republican governors in this country. We have roughly the same number of Republican legislatures.

I do know that a law professor there [in Columbia University] published an article calling me a white supremacist.