Sublime

Final arguments should be stories, not strategies.

mordant,

experience, rather than honors, mattered most to him.

Or, to put it in less technical terms, he could be an asshole.

The secular argument for human freedom, launched almost three centuries ago under the rubric of “natural rights,” has often been reduced to a calculation of probabilities: democracy and the personal freedoms it protects are good not because they have an inherent moral superiority over other forms of organizing society, but because they are the leas

The hijackers, Democrats and Republicans alike, have acted as if the idea that self-government depends on people being able to count on independent providers of information is a quaint relic and that the new media channels present new opportunities that creative political operatives must seize.

The question is revealing. It tells me that the practice of public officials shopping “dirt” to reputable journalists has become so common, this twentysomething I’ve never met before has no compunction about raising it openly in front of his colleagues. He thinks his job, as he collects a salary from taxpayers, is to conduct and spread opposition r

consultant Ed Rollins. Rollins was

William Ickes,