The best six doctors anywhereAnd no one can deny itAre sunshine, water, rest, and airExercise and diet.These six will gladly you attendIf only you are willingYour mind they’ll easeYour will they’ll mendAnd charge you not...

He’s suffering enough now and this is certainly more fuel for the fire.

It was easy enough to tell us about the physical properties of the landscape, but they needed to find a way to describe both the terror and the pleasure of the vastness. There’s an importance...

The speech will give millions of Americans an impression of this president and his administration at a time when the edifice is shaky. And we never know until it is delivered how it is going...

In the early stages, it showed affection for the president. But now what you want is somebody with maturity and confidence who doesn’t need that kind of assurance.

It’s such a phenomenal hole in the national debate that you can have arguments with nonexistent people. All politicians try to get away with this to a certain extent. What’s striking here is how much...

Jefferson expected them to bring something back other than samples of this and that. They were really going to represent the West in the American imagination. They had to somehow say, ‘This is America.’ No...

The West was very disorienting – vast, big, rough, dislocating, … None of that represented home.

[Explorers, for the most part, had been of the Marco Polo school of writing:] Basically, you travel through the wilderness for a long time, then you come to a city, … That’s not very helpful...

An incredibly admirable job,

Going back again and again to the troops is also a constant reminder to Americans of just who is taking the risks in Iraq. I don’t think it’s playing particularly well.

All he had to do in 2002 was say ‘We’re going to do something,’ and everyone was going to cheer. It really didn’t matter much what it was.