Our Greatest Leaders Are Neither Dreamers Nor

History Tells Us That America Does Best When The Private Sector Is Energetic And Entrepreneurial And The Government Is Attentive And Engaged. Who Among Us, Really, Would, Looking Back, Wish To Edit Out Either Sphere At The Entire Expense Of The Other?

An Important Thing To Remember About The Press Is There Is No Ideological Bias.

An Epic Subject Requires A Writer Of Epic Skill And Scope, And We Have A Perfect Pairing In Cleopatra And Stacy Schiff. Absorbing And Illuminating, This New Biography Will Endure.

I Am An Episcopalian Who Takes The Faith Of My Fathers Seriously, And I Would, I Think, Be Disheartened If My Own Young Children Were To Turn Away From The Church When They Grow Up. I Am Also A Critic Of Christianity, If By Critic One Means An Observer Who Brings Historical And Literary Judgment To Bear On The Texts And Traditions Of The Church.

Environmental Concern Is A Little Like Dieting Or Paying Off Credit-card Debt - An Episodically Terrific Idea That Burns Brightly And Then Seems To Fade When We Realize There's A Reason We Need To Diet Or Pay Down Our Debt. The Reason Is That It's Really, Really Hard, And Too Many Of Us In Too Many Spheres Of Life Choose The Easy Over The Hard.