Richard Cohen

“Opposition to social change is but one pillar of contemporary Republicanism.”

“Trump is a menace, both ignorant and chaotic. His saving grace is his incompetence.”

“It takes a willful disregard of history to appreciate how white Southerners could look at the Confederate battle flag and see states' rights or a way of life or a tradition - and not one hum...”

“Trump is unloved in his own house. A figure of ridicule, a theatrical creation, he is almost sympathetic. He was told by the greedy and the outright stupid that he would make a swell preside...”

“Myths have a certain staying power because, really, they are aspirational - not always who we are, but always who we want to be. We see ourselves as good and generous. We believe we are a vi...”

“As we see with Sunni and Shiite Muslims, interreligious fights are the most ugly.”

“Being an American is life-threatening. For various reasons, men and women here don't live as long as men and women in about two dozen other countries, including the ones we defeated in World...”

“Harvey Weinstein does not personify American liberalism any more than Bill O'Reilly personifies American conservatism.”

“The fact is that the United States does not need Israel. Our special relationship was not forged, as it was with Great Britain, in two world wars, not to mention a common language and, in si...”

“George W. Bush, a charming and utterly gracious man, was a catastrophic twofer. He took the United States to war in Iraq, a wrenching debacle: more than 4,000 Americans dead, nearly 32,000 w...”