The Name Comes Off Last night I went to a birthday party with a small group of friends. This group is sometimes referred to as “The Gang.” It was a fun affair and honored two members of the gang with food, drink, and two birthday cakes. Part of the evening was spent...
No Person Rises Entirely Alone In every successful society, there exists an unspoken agreement between the individual and the larger community. Everyone needs to realize that no person rises entirely alone. Wealth, opportunity, security, education, and social mobility...
You’re Fired! For one miraculous year, Donald J. Trump achieved what had once seemed impossible. He did not fire anyone. Historians will no doubt debate the cause of this restraint. Some will attribute it to discipline. Others to strategy. But those who have studied...
Diplomacy by Pay-Per-View There was a time when the conduct of foreign policy required a certain degree of solemnity. Men gathered in quiet rooms, spoke in careful tones, and occasionally pretended to understand the consequences of their decisions. That era, like so...
JD Vance and Two Real Estate Agents There are leaders who resolve crises. There are leaders who manage crises. And then there are those rare figures—visionaries, really—who take a modest, localized problem and nurture it into something far grander, far more ambitious,...
On the Modern Oath: Loyalty, Love, and the Department of Devotion There was a time—again, not so long ago that it should require archaeological excavation—when the Attorney General of the United States swore an oath to the Constitution. This oath, though unfashionable... 
