Sublime

A writer could blast out her opinions, but writers are at their best not when they tell people what to think but when they provide a context within which others can think.

the claim that comparatively “retarded” Americans should not have their views heard in political discourse is still precisely how both progressives and National Review conservatives regard populists to this day.

The winners in Smart America have withdrawn from the national life of their fellow Americans. Christopher Lasch, writing in the early 1990s when this withdrawal was young, called it “the revolt of the elites.” Between meritocracy and democracy, it’s the first that dominates their waking hours, commands their unthinking devotion, and drives them, li

People with libertarian ideals have generally supported the Republican Party since the 1930s because libertarians and Republicans have a common enemy: the liberal welfare society that they believe is destroying America’s liberty (for libertarians) and moral fiber (for social conservatives).