"I don't know if history will adjudge Barack Obama a great president, but he has been a necessary one..." — Richard Cohen

Harvey Weinstein does not personify American liberalism any more than Bill O'Reilly personifies American conservatism.

Something about the Clintons sets the GOP to howling at the moon.

We grow up to respect the gray. Black or white, one or the other, is childish. It represents the worldview of someone who does not know the world.

I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.