Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

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

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

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

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

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.