Jon Margolis

From one of those bland and by now stylized "debates" which the serious teevee news folks so regularly stage between Sen. Liberal and Sen. Conservative, there emerged the other day...

If you want to know why the Republicans did so well in last year's elections, read a book called "The Year the Horses Came," by Mary Mackey, or listen to...

Much talk has there been about the uncivil behavior of the lower orders. You know, the not-so-small children of the poor and near-poor, usually of some identifiable minority ethnicity, who...

If it is true that a man is known by the company he keeps-and who are mere mortals to dispute Euripides, who first made the observation?-and if that company includes...

Ah, the West, where the spaces are wide open and the skies are big, where they know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em, where the handclasp is...

Whoever doubts that a revival of the medieval era is at hand need only flick through the channels to find the incontrovertible evidence, confined no longer to psychic advice on...

(The following memorandum may, or then again may not, have been discovered behind the right foot of the statue of George Washington near the New York Stock Exchange. Either way,...

It is not written in the stars that whenever Americans take up a political debate they must do so in the silliest possible manner, with each faction trying to outdo...

The first recorded lament about how the mighty had fallen was not a humor piece. But then, those mighty had really fallen, beheaded and all that. So despite some past...

In the matter of those Republican welfare proposals, on which the liberals have weighed in as liberals and the conservatives have proclaimed as conservatives, how about three observations which are...