I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.

I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will almost inevitably result in their making mistakes and misjudgments and otherwise acting badly.

Being both stupid and ignorant is an accomplishment.

An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely independent.

I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.

Peggy Noonan is not as good a columnist as my colleague Kathleen Parker, in my opinion, but they share something related to their Pulitzers. Kathleen won in in 2010. They won it for a similar reason. They broke from their crowd, and sprinted away. They delivered the politically unexpected take, at some peril to their readership.

I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers.