Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In poli….

Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on….

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.….

It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a gr….

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity..

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House….

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars..

The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quick….

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease o….

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the pr….

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's bel….

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved on….

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to ….

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things..

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost….

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it..

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old ra….

What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long..

In America nothing dies easier than tradition..

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was ….

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comical….