Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction.

There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.

It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.

Terror, married to technology and accommodated by progress in travel, has turned evil individuals into traveling ballistic missiles.

Travel like a pro, not like a hobo. That's my motto.

For trance music to be good, it has to sneak up on you.

Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate.

Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy.

True, the country is divided, but it's not Right and Left. It's Left and Not Left. It is because, for liberals, politics is personal and therefore extremely loud. For the rest of us, we prefer community over calamity.

As foreign attacks increase, it's easy to treat them like bad weather happening somewhere else. It's what we read over breakfast. But when that storm hits your shores, remember this: Wishful thinking never saved a single life. The truth, however, has.

The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.

As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.