With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.