Israel has been a stage on which American Jews have played out their fantasies of toughness - often from Martha's Vineyard.
The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europeans who has spoken most meaningfully to American and British poets.
The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
As an American, I repudiate Russia's or any other foreign government's attempt to interfere or meddle in our democratic process, and I would call on all Americans to do the same.
American Christians are quite able to organize around issues that concern them. Yet religious persecution appears not to have grabbed their attention, despite worldwide media coverage of the atrocities against Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East.
American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.
We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials.
Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.
I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It used such a small piece of his presidency to illustrate him as a president through the lens of that event.
The United States is NATO's leading military power, and President Barack Obama has required NATO to align behind a doctrine that has amounted to the most disastrous American foreign-policy debacle since Vietnam.
The Second Amendment is, of course, very much part of the American fabric. But the intent of the founders was that the amendment protected the rights of citizens to bear arms in a militia for their collective self-defense.
I'm tired of hearing about this 'well-regulated militia' that is so necessary for American freedom.
I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.
Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
