Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.

If I were Donald Trump, I would definitely not pick Mitt Romney because it's very easy for Mitt Romney to have have a separate foreign policy operatus in the State Department that would run a dissenting foreign policy from the White House foreign policy. There, I think the populist America-first foreign policy of Donald Trump does run against a potential rival.