One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

You don't overturn a previous court's decisions lightly and I think most Americans are somewhere in the middle on abortion and there's not going to be a revolution here at all.

I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know.

When duty calls, that is when character counts.

In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'

I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.