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In perhaps the least inspiring video message of all time, the 80-year-old President announced his candidacy.

You may be in favor of that, or you may not. But here is something I cannot understand: If the sale of tobacco products is to be made illegal, what are New Yorkers meant to mix with their recently legalized marijuana?

Legendary bad boy, the Earl of Rochester, wrote sex-fueled verse designed to shock.

It was from the Northern Ireland conflict that I first learned how language – like everything else – can be warped utterly. Take the late Martin McGuinness, not to mention his still-living, libel-hungry comrades.

From crime to climate protesters, the predictable result of not upholding the law is more lawlessness

I liked a remark that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made last year. That the most dangerous person for America is not a foreign despot, but our very own Randi Weingarten. The President of the American Federation of Teachers did not take kindly to that point.

WHAT do you do when the demand for offence is greater than the supply? Why, you go scouring the land looking for things to be offended by, of course.

John Donne’s poem strikes at the heart—with a line that knocks you flat.

‘Well, they can’t cancel Picasso.’ That was my optimistic take some months ago when a friend in the art world said: ‘Watch out, they’re coming for him next.’

I predict that Teixeira will become a national hero to one political side or other in the US, depending on whose politics his leaks most assist.

Why is anyone shocked that authors reflect their times?

An 18th-century poet praised the Lord—and his pet feline Jeoffry.