Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.