Charlie Sykes

“I'm not usually absolutely speechless.”

“The N.R.A.'s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks - devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster - is designed to pre-empt anything more serious by giving the illusion of action. I...”

“In 2008, conservatives ridiculed the Left for its adulation of Barack Obama, only to succumb to their own cult of personality eight years later.”

“Criticisms of mainstream media bias have been a staple of the conservative movement and talk radio from the beginning.”

“Reagan did not have to rely on or cope with talk radio, Fox News, Breitbart, or any of the other trolls that now dominate conservative politics.”

“In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.”

“In our era of zero tolerance, I would surely have spent most of elementary and middle school shuttling between suspensions and expulsions, with an occasional time out for social studies.”