The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public igominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

He's older and wiser but he never strays from his basic values. He cares as much, more, about the losers than the winners. He's so unlike everything you think …

I couldn't believe how happy his music made me and how good it was. He's a gift, and I didn't know. I mean, I knew 'Born in the USA' and 'Glory Days,' but I di…

There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.

The idea of a liberal elite is not intellectually robust. It's never been enunciated with anything approaching scholarly rigor, it has been refuted countless t…

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

Both constructs of the aphorism hold true. But, because it is an American convention to adore common people without restriction, I elect here to criticize them…