The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.

Because this law could mean so much or so little, it held potential for causing great mischief in the world of art and politics. We needed to reduce its uncertainty, and the best way to...

An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate or Union forces. Finally he put on a gray coat and blue pants,...

During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by ‘preventing worse language.’ In the military it would be...