Sublime

Keller’s apologetic model for politics was perfectly suited for the “neutral world.” But the “negative world” is a different place. Tough choices are increasingly before us, offense is unavoidable, and sides will need to be taken on very important issues. Recent events have proven that being winsome in this moment will not guarantee a favorable hea

the more he is like a punch-drunk pug fighting himself in the movies.

In effect, the president, quite aware of his and his staff’s inexperience in drafting legislation (in fact, nobody on his senior staff had any experience at all), decided to outsource his agenda—and to a heretofore archenemy. Watching Ryan steal the legislative initiative during the transition,

Like many others who would later join National Review, Burnham came from a communist background.

He wanted forty thousand acres of parks.

The arrangement would give him roughly 65 percent of the votes on any company matter.