Presidential Legacies Are Valuable Things, Too Valuable

Bad Government Is The Natural Product Of Rule By Those Who Believe Government Is Bad.

People Getting Their Fundamental Interests Wrong Is What American Political Life Is All About.

What Is At Stake In The Debate Over Health Care Is More Than The Mere Crafting Of Policy. The Issue Is Now The Identity Of The Democratic Party.

Money Never Seems To Be Interested In Strengthening Regulatory Agencies, For Example, But Always In Subverting Them, In Making Them Miss The Danger Signs In Coal Mines And In Derivatives Trading And In Deep-sea Oil Wells.

We Have Become A Society That Can't Self-correct, That Can't Address Its Obvious Problems, That Can't Pull Out Of Its Nosedive. And So To Our List Of Disasters Let Us Add This Fourth Entry: We Have Entered An Age Of Folly That - For All Our Facebooking And The Twittling Tweedle-dee-tweets Of The Twitterati - We Can't Wake Up From.