Sometimes good countries are so traumatized by events that they lose their bearings and embrace bad leaders.

Yes, Europe needs to be more welcoming, but that's only half of it. Muslims need to embrace the obligations of European residence and citizenship.

The American experiment has always depended on a measure of tolerance and good sense.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

Images sometimes capture particular periods in history. The unreachable green light, beckoning from across the bay in 'The Great Gatsby,' has become a symbol of the yearning of America in the 1920s.

The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find obnoxious.