Jon Margolis

If nothing else, things will be different, and there`s something to be said for that. Assume the worst. Assume that neither the new president nor the Congress does anything to...

Ah, Election Day! How magnificent! Now the people speak, and their voice is the voice of wisdom, virtue, enlightenment and even, someone said, of God. Well, let`s calm down a...

So cherished, so vital is freedom of the press that society must suffer its abuses. It is abused weekly in the supermarket tabloids, regularly in the television expose programs, too...

When everybody agrees-the professors, the pundits, the poll-takers, the senators, the seers, the usually reliable sources-somebody ought to suggest that they`re wrong. Herewith the suggestion. What they all agree on...

There was the president of the United States, perhaps the single most important person in the world, in the White House, being interviewed. By an entertainer. An articulate and enlightened...

It`s hard to go more than a few steps in this town without coming upon a sporting-goods store, and it`s hard to get out of the sporting-goods store without getting...

Here is why George Bush is in big, big trouble. He is in big trouble, though not quite finished, because in order to win the election he has to convince...

Herewith a metaphysical dichotomy. Whaaaat? OK, let`s try it in English. Today`s exercise contains an internal contradiction. It starts with the premise that too much time and attention are being...

When people keep talking about an inconsequential matter, they either have a vested interest in prolonging the discussion or they are too simpleminded to know just how inconsequential the matter...

Some years ago the editor at a semi-major New York publishing house called a reporter in Washington suggesting that he write a book. About what? ''Oh, anything you want,'' the...