For many Americans, 2016 will be remembered as a terrible year. It was a year in which the lack of faith in our institutions was laid bare. Ben Domenech Read Quote
Rogue One’ does not feel like a ‘Star Wars’ movie. There are no scrolling yellow letters. There is no classic John Williams score. It feels like a movie of a different type set in the ‘Star Wars’ universe, a movie where there is no magic to save you. It is not a movie for children. Ben Domenech Read Quote
The first time I watched ‘The Magnificent Seven’ on TV on a Sunday afternoon, I knew it was going to be a different kind of western. Ben Domenech Read Quote
Belief that your tribe is good and other tribes are evil is what everyone thought for most of human history. Ben Domenech Read Quote
Tolerance as practiced by the Christian, enlightened West was never about thinking that bad people are good but that we are all called to love the sinner and hate the sin. Ben Domenech Read Quote
To think that the heritage of the West, including post-war liberalism, was a selfish, secular, practical arrangement of politics is a fiction. Ben Domenech Read Quote
In a healthy republic, there is a need for figures who understand that the presidency is not the be-all and end-all of the people. Ben Domenech Read Quote
Engaging in a sycophantic way with any politician in the short term is tempting. It offers the lure of access and the promise of influence. But ultimately, it can lead to misreading the environment, giving too much of an ear to the politician’s circle, and confining your audience to partisans. Ben Domenech Read Quote
It is no accident that the place that lends itself to creating conflicts between the dominant order of thought and people who want to speak their minds freely is the college campus, where conservatives feel outnumbered and crushed by a system of higher education that believes in academic freedom for me, not for thee. Ben Domenech Read Quote
