Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks

The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.

This is a jolly imprudent adventure!

Surrender to fate and you will never be fully contented.

And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

John Walker Lindh, a twenty-year-old American studying in Pakistan, was captured in Northern Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban. Experts call it the worst semester abroad program ever.

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.