Random thoughts on the passing scene: Different people have very different reactions to President Barack Obama...

Regarding Shelby Steele’s “From Emmitt Till to Skip Gates” (op-ed, Aug. 1): Harvard University can have Prof. Henry Louis Gates and its entire Afro-American Research Institute work to explain racism in America—clearly important and unfortunately necessary...

Here are five thoughts--four whimsical, one relatively serious--on the beer summit at the White House, hosted by President Obama for Professor Gates of Harvard and Sergeant Crowley of the Cambridge Police, with Vice-President Biden in attendance...

Soon-to-be-Justice Sonia Sotomayor has called herself "a product of affirmative action" who was "accepted rather readily into Princeton" despite test scores that were lower than those of more privileged classmates due to "cultural biases built into testing."...