The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

Don't expect others to do your work for you.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.