Ben Domenech

“Gawker was a site built to destroy lives. Its mission was to discover the worst moment in a person's life - and then publicize it for profit.”

“American policymaking in the Islamic world must begin with a foundation of respect for Muslims, especially when they tell us about their faith.”

“Every day, we publish articles at 'The Federalist' with which I disagree.”

“The government in Havana is best understood as a cross between violent left-wing radicals and organized crime.”

“The radicals who perpetrated the Charlie Hebdo attack were not motivated by Western imperialism but by members of a free society violating Islamic law.”

“It is unhealthy to live in an environment where every aspect of our culture requires a great sort, where creative talents are for some but not for all, and where performing for the president of the United States becomes a point of regular and significant controversy.”

“It used to be you could just write vaguely conservative things while running a Starbucks - now, you can't.”

“I stopped being a Republican because of the Iraq War.”

“A repeated problem with the Obama administration has been the lack of understanding that contracts only matter if they are enforceable - and if there is a party willing to do the enforcement.”

“One of the frequent blind spots for economic libertarians, speaking as one who has personally dealt with this log in the eye, is a tendency to allow principles of how economies work and the beauty of trade to make us ignore perceived threats animating people who value more than just the power to buy and sell.”

“Unilateral sanctions on Cuba have been oppressive and largely ineffective, and that's why the public largely supports lifting them.”

“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.”

“Being a bureaucrat means never having to say you're sorry.”

“We must not fall into the trap of thinking speech that offends is speech that must be forbidden. A healthy culture demands that much of us, to equip the next generation of Americans with the knowledge and reason they will need to confront an uncertain future.”

“The human heart tends toward tribalism before tolerance. We can go back to that world. It still lives in all of us. Fighting it is the challenge, particularly at a time when the most audacious thing you can do is show some grace.”

“Scarcity of quarterback talent ought to inspire innovation in a sport that desperately needs it.”

“For years, the NFL was the one league apparently immune from ratings downturns of any significance.”

“What we try to do at 'The Federalist' is to provide opinion and analysis that brings in a lot of different perspectives from across the Right. You'll see, a lot of times, us running an article that argues one side of something and then an article that argues the opposite.”

“I have seen cabinet secretaries who type with two fingers.”