Sublime

For him, that voice had a distinctive set of qualities: simple, declarative, clean.

“the spectator could not fail to be impressed with the idea that a man who could have such a friend must be a noble man indeed.”

Twice a week he met the press and on Thursday afternoon the cabinet.

The quality of Free America’s leaders steadily deteriorated—falling from Reagan to Gingrich to Ted Cruz, from William F. Buckley to Ann Coulter to Sean Hannity—with no bottom.

fait accompli.

good democrat.” Jefferson

History had taught republicans to distrust luminaries.

Lewis was beaten and, lying on the pavement, was ready to die. Yet he survived,

“The finest task of achieving justice,” Niebuhr wrote, “will be done neither by the Utopians who dream dreams of perfect brotherhood nor yet by the cynics who believe that the self-interest of nations cannot be overcome. It must be done by the realists who understand that nations are selfish and will be so till the end of history, but that none of