Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for in a world in which Communism is hardly a monolithic force.

Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support.

The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.

Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.

I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.