Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a lot of us, but a respectable senator for a long period of time.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them.

My colleague Ross Douthat wrote that any time you give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, he always lets you down.

I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.

I want to limit the effects of the power of donors, no question about it.

A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.