Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. . .

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to government.