After reading that Hillary Clinton declared her exclusive use of personal e-mail a “matter of convenience,” I’m reminded once again that with this family we get all the downsides of royalty without any of the upside of nobility. Rules are for the commoners, I suppose.

Madam Secretary, if you’re going to hold yourself apart from the rest of us, why not hold yourself to a better, higher standard? Within the long and often sordid history of world aristocracy, there are those people who chose to use their cultural and political megaphone to model the best kinds of behavior, to set an example of moral rectitude. You and your husband, however, chose the ancien régime. Cake for the French peasants; FOIA for the civil servants.