There once was a time when employers could be reasonably certain that college graduates had a basic sense of the world and, as a minimum, could write a coherent business letter. That is simply no longer the case, as some academic leaders appear ready to admit. Charlie Sykes Read Quote
Fox News and other Trump-friendly media long ago became fever wards of speculation and conspiracy-mongering as they obsessed over plots from the Deep State. Charlie Sykes Read Quote
Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch. Charlie Sykes Read Quote
Victimism can be seen as a generalized cultural impulse to deny personal responsibility and to obsess on the grievances of the insatiable self. Charlie Sykes Read Quote
Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it. Charlie Sykes Read Quote
With a vast majority of conservative voters and listeners solidly behind Mr. Trump, conservative critics of the president find themselves isolated and under siege. Charlie Sykes Read Quote
For the anti-anti-Trump pundit, whatever the allegation against Mr. Trump, whatever his blunders or foibles, the other side is always worse. Charlie Sykes Read Quote
For years, Republicans have effectively outsourced their thought leadership to the loudmouths at the end of the bar. But perhaps the most extreme example of that trend has been the issue of guns, where the party has ceded control to a gun lobby that has built its brand on absolutism. Charlie Sykes Read Quote
