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1. The lesson of the Scott Walker, Rick Perry, and Bobby Jindal failures is simple: You can’t run a presidential campaign from the undercard stage.
2. It’d be nice to say that American media doesn’t hate this country.
3. Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended.
4. One of the frequent blind spots for economic libertarians, speaking as one who has personally dealt with this log in the eye, is a tendency to allow principles of how economies work and the beauty of trade to make us ignore perceived threats animating people who value more than just the power to buy and sell.
5. Engaging in a sycophantic way with any politician in the short term is tempting. It offers the lure of access and the promise of influence. But ultimately, it can lead to misreading the environment, giving too much of an ear to the politician’s circle, and confining your audience to partisans.
6. In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, everyone in America assumed that there would be wars to follow — wars over the reunification of Germany, over the nations within the sphere of Soviet influence, and more. There weren’t, because George H. W. Bush’s policies and diplomacy prevented that.
7. ‘Rogue One’ does not feel like a ‘Star Wars’ movie. There are no scrolling yellow letters. There is no classic John Williams score. It feels like a movie of a different type set in the ‘Star Wars’ universe, a movie where there is no magic to save you. It is not a movie for children.
8. Reviewing Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’ presents a challenge for those of us tired of a media environment where the dominant voices consistently try to have it both ways.
9. Scarcity of quarterback talent ought to inspire innovation in a sport that desperately needs it.
10. The government in Havana is best understood as a cross between violent left-wing radicals and organized crime.
11. Ordinary people in such positions — working at firms, companies, or chains — have the absolute right to have their voice in the public square.
12. It’d be nice to claim that the American press, while maintaining objectivity and balancing against bias, is still inherently American — that they are patriots who love this country even as they report on its defects.
13. Trump represents a vibrant and fed-up mass of people who see the Republican Party as standing for nothing, so they have turned to someone who can beat the party by standing for anything.
14. What can be said of George H. W. Bush beyond the personal accolades is that, as president, he was a man who did nothing by half measures. He was hands-on, engaged, and thought deeply and seriously about the purpose of the nation.
15. I will not apologize ever, for any reason, for publishing the views of people who don’t make a living in politics about why they plan to vote a certain way.
16. I came from a religious, homeschooled background; I had conventional views across the board.
17. It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that there was not just one.
18. Careful authors and journalists cultivate relationships with a wide variety of sources so as to avoid bad information or being led down an inaccurate path. Gossip columnists don’t particularly care if the path is inaccurate, so long as it gets attention and results in more fuel for the fire.
19. It is no accident that the place that lends itself to creating conflicts between the dominant order of thought and people who want to speak their minds freely is the college campus, where conservatives feel outnumbered and crushed by a system of higher education that believes in academic freedom for me, not for thee.
20. In a time of fractured politics, our need for unifying cultural events is more acute, and particularly our need for creators who do not deny the people their art because of the votes they cast.