The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19 and editor of my college paper - is an abhorrence of the extreme.
I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.
Trump is a systemic stress test.
The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.
Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and impenetrable that his official biographer was practically driven mad trying to figure him out.
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
