Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. |
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. |
Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire |
Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs. |
Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing chemistry of Cub fans' loyalty. But their unique steadfastness through thin and thin has something to do with the team's Franciscan simplicity. |
Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books. |
She is so totally absorbed in a vocation / both a gift and a mastering passion / that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love. |
Socialism, born and raised in France, is unpersuasive even to the promiscuously persuadable French. |
Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!" |
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. |
Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions. |
Terrorism is not the only new danger of this era. Another is the administration's argument that because the president is commander in chief, he is the 'sole organ for the nation in foreign affairs' … [which] is refuted by the Constitution's plain language, which empowers Congress to ratify treaties, declare war, fund and regulate military forces, and make laws 'necessary and proper' for the execution of all presidential powers. |
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism |
The elderly are being subsidized to an astonishing degree. |
The future has a way of arriving unannounced. |