The idea of the frontier is a stand-in for the idea of liberty.
For being the largest generation in American history, the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization.
Much of the media failed to anticipate the potential Trump represented as a disruptive populist force, understand why his supporters trusted him, or offer honest reporting on the underlying trends that made his rise possible.
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.
It used to be you could just write vaguely conservative things while running a Starbucks - now, you can't.
If your team is good, you watch all the games - but if they're no fun to watch? You have a plethora of options. Just switch to Netflix.
Careful authors and journalists cultivate relationships with a wide variety of sources so as to avoid bad information or being led down an inaccurate path. Gossip columnists don't particularly care if the path is inaccurate, so long as it gets attention and results in more fuel for the fire.
I stopped being a Republican because of the Iraq War.
You should never meet your heroes.
We need a Moneyball revolution in the NFL. We need Spread teams and Run and Shoot teams and Option teams.
I've rooted all my life for a marginal team.
I love football. But it goes through periods of poor play.
For years, the NFL was the one league apparently immune from ratings downturns of any significance.
Conservative voters will put up with a lot of things in the culture that disagree with their views. They have proven time and again they will roll their eyes at actors and musicians saying negative things about the presidents and candidates they vote for and still consume their product.
Sometimes, quarterbacks just get hurt. So do running backs, so do linemen, so do wide receivers. Blaming innovative schemes for these injuries is shortsighted.
Scarcity of quarterback talent ought to inspire innovation in a sport that desperately needs it.
Every day, we publish articles at 'The Federalist' with which I disagree.
I will not apologize ever, for any reason, for publishing the views of people who don't make a living in politics about why they plan to vote a certain way.
The goal of any worthwhile and effective journal of opinion analysis in navigating what is an increasingly tribal and divisive period in American history should be to promote real debate. That does not mean retreating to our corners and pretending that, if we ignore the perspectives we don't like, they will magically go away.
One of the differences between what happens when an author and a gossip columnist sit down to write a book is that the former tends to make every effort at disguising and protecting their sources, while the latter doesn't particularly care.
