Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.
Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.
Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.
There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?
But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.
I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.
It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.
