Jon Margolis

For the latest excess of the right wing, blame the left wing. This latest excess is not necessarily the worst. But it is bad enough. Call it monism, the opposite...

How lovely it is to be hated, for it grants the license to engage in America`s favorite pastime-whining. This was the gift bestowed last week by the Republican National Convention...

Confused about just what Republicans mean when they say ''family values'' ? Don`t feel bad. So are they, which is one reason they never quite say what they mean. Perhaps...

Like beauty, ideology is in the eye of the beholder, which explains why Republicans can call Bill Clinton and Al Gore ''extreme liberals'' while liberal Democrats complain that their party...

This thing is not over, and the foolishness of today`s mantra-''Bush can`t win''-is matched only by the foolishness of last winter`s mantra-'' Clinton can`t win''-incanted, dontcha know, by the very...

So the future will have to wait, after all. You remember the future, political version. It was here. It was to consist of campaigning via call-in shows, of going ''right...

Such is the perversity of the human animal that no sooner does a new reality displace the old conventional wisdom than someone will proclaim that reality the new conventional wisdom,...

If it produces nothing else of value, and it does not, the debate about abortion provides the best illustration of just how out-of-touch America`s political elite is with the body...

Because foolishness commonly breeds foolishness, no one should be surprised that Vice President Dan Quayle`s critics have taken the wrong approach in response to his attack on the ''cultural elite.''...

Even with buttercups in bloom, the drive to Minsk`s new airport is not beautiful. Replacing too many of the buttercups are apartment houses, hundreds of huge, identical boxes soaring skyward...