When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it.

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.