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At 26, I barely knew who I was.
You should never meet your heroes.
Politics is downstream from culture.
I've rooted all my life for a marginal team.
I know that charges of plagiarism are serious.
I stopped being a Republican because of the Iraq War.
Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.
Being a bureaucrat means never having to say you're sorry.
I have seen cabinet secretaries who type with two fingers.
I love football. But it goes through periods of poor play.
It'd be nice to say that American media doesn't hate this country.
You shouldn't have to be a chair at a think tank to speak your mind.
Every day, we publish articles at 'The Federalist' with which I disagree.
I came from a religious, homeschooled background; I had conventional views across the board.
Scarcity of quarterback talent ought to inspire innovation in a sport that desperately needs it.
For years, the NFL was the one league apparently immune from ratings downturns of any significance.
Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind.
We need a Moneyball revolution in the NFL. We need Spread teams and Run and Shoot teams and Option teams.
The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.
It used to be you could just write vaguely conservative things while running a Starbucks - now, you can't.
Father John Misty imagines that he is a rebel. He is, but he does not realize what he is rebelling against.
Belief that your tribe is good and other tribes are evil is what everyone thought for most of human history.
The government in Havana is best understood as a cross between violent left-wing radicals and organized crime.
Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended.
The ongoing argument over whether the Enlightenment is a good thing is hardly a new facet of American political life.
We saw a true wave election in 2010 for Republicans. There was no such repudiation offered by Resistance Democrats in 2018.
The 'freedom agenda' of George W. Bush's second inaugural was a noble concept - but in practice, it offered ignoble results.
In a healthy republic, there is a need for figures who understand that the presidency is not the be-all and end-all of the people.
For being the largest generation in American history, the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization.
Unilateral sanctions on Cuba have been oppressive and largely ineffective, and that's why the public largely supports lifting them.
The first time I watched 'The Magnificent Seven' on TV on a Sunday afternoon, I knew it was going to be a different kind of western.
'The Federalist' is a small staff, and our close-knit family of senior contributors outwork our competition because of that closeness.
If your team is good, you watch all the games - but if they're no fun to watch? You have a plethora of options. Just switch to Netflix.
Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn't overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good.
For many Americans, 2016 will be remembered as a terrible year. It was a year in which the lack of faith in our institutions was laid bare.
Gawker was a site built to destroy lives. Its mission was to discover the worst moment in a person's life - and then publicize it for profit.
Ordinary people in such positions - working at firms, companies, or chains - have the absolute right to have their voice in the public square.
To think that the heritage of the West, including post-war liberalism, was a selfish, secular, practical arrangement of politics is a fiction.
American policymaking in the Islamic world must begin with a foundation of respect for Muslims, especially when they tell us about their faith.
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.
There are consequences for just expressing generally conservative views. And if those views take on the more extreme dint, the judgment can be swift.
I have seen a man charged with revolutionizing incredibly complex government information technology systems who did not know how to use a thumb drive.
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.
The radicals who perpetrated the Charlie Hebdo attack were not motivated by Western imperialism but by members of a free society violating Islamic law.
Conservatives recognize that college campuses and their frames of reality have an outsized impact on the culture, training the next generation of leaders.
When contrarian voices are elevated to publications once viewed as places where contending ideas shared space, organized online backlash is now inevitable.
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.
Sometimes, quarterbacks just get hurt. So do running backs, so do linemen, so do wide receivers. Blaming innovative schemes for these injuries is shortsighted.
Trump knows where his strengths exist, and he is emphatically in favor of doubling down on them. This goes far beyond appointing Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
Making a good meal for someone, even if it is nothing complicated, is an expression of love: it is an invitation to share, for one dinner at least, in our common humanity.