What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
David BrooksThere has never been evidence that people from these [banned] countries are disproportionately likely to commit terrorist acts. We have sent chaos to the airports. We have offended the world. We have derailed the administration. We have done it in such an incompetent way, the administration has, that people with perfectly legal residence have been widely inconvenienced.
David BrooksWhen your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.
David Brooks