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I'm happy to have interns at The Weekly Standard and happy to have readers of The Weekly Standard, but if you all tell me that you were busy reading Plato and [Lev] Tolstoy and playing violin in the orchestra, I'd say that was great. I wouldn't tell you to take time out from that to get involved in political journalism.
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Political parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical.
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Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
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[Donald ] Trump is more important than all of us. He's more important than the media.
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Some journalists just get too wrapped up in daily news cycles and tempests in a teapot that are not going to make any difference. As someone who is older and has been through a few election cycles, maybe this is just being an old fogey, but I think I know what's going to really matter and what's not.
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While a defeat for Obamacare in the Court would be nice, the defeat of President Obama at the polls on November 6 is crucial. If electoral victory is achieved, Obamacare can and will be repealed - and more judges of a constitutionalist persuasion will be appointed by the next president.
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Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.
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My sense from talking to college students is that you have a healthier sense of the diversity of opinions or arguments or analysis about issues. In our day it was just sort of, Well gee, this is what the news says so that's the way it is. It didn't really get challenged that much.
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The trouble with politics and political coverage today is that there's too much liberal bias.... There's too much tilt toward the left-wing agenda. Too much apology for liberal policy failures. Too much pandering to liberal candidates and causes.
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I don't really believe that people read just the stuff they agree with.
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Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.
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We can remove Saddam because that could start a chain reaction in the Arab world that would be very healthy.
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White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.
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Bush is no conservative.
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Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio obviously the online explosion has changed things.
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Republicans can also point to an alternate path. They can draw upon genuine experts to explain what should be done.
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Conservatism as an ism is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.
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I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on constitutional philosophy. Miers is undoubtedly a decent and competent person. But her selection will unavoidably be judged as reflecting a combination of cronyism and capitulation on the part of the president.
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I still would say generally that more people have access [to] and take advantage of more diversity of opinion than was once .
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I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.
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