While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.

Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.

Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.