A biography for Charlie Sykeshasn’t been written yet.
“We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not.”
“In 2010, conservatives won big majorities in the Wisconsin State Legislature, and I openly supported many of their reforms, including changes to collective bargaining and expansions of school choice.”
“Victimism can be seen as a generalized cultural impulse to deny personal responsibility and to obsess on the grievances of the insatiable self.”
“I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler.”
“I knew Buckley - he was a friend of mine - and Steve Bannon is no William F. Buckley. Buckley marginalized the kooks. Bannon empowered them.”
“The GOP was once the party of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and John McCain.”
“At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy think tanks.”
“I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes.”
“Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter.”
“With a vast majority of conservative voters and listeners solidly behind Mr. Trump, conservative critics of the president find themselves isolated and under siege.”
“It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest.”
“We would naturally prefer not to reckon with the worst of what people do or say on the margins, but we have to. Especially if it seems possible to trace a line from vicious rhetoric on a computer screen to violent action.”
“In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.”
“Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill - Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much different vision of American greatness, of nationalism - a much darker view, I think, of the world.”
“For the anti-anti-Trump pundit, whatever the allegation against Mr. Trump, whatever his blunders or foibles, the other side is always worse.”
“I'm not usually absolutely speechless.”
“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.”
“As our politics have become more polarized, the essential loyalties shift from ideas to parties to tribes to individuals. Nothing else ultimately matters.”
“It has almost become a cliche that we are a polarized country, but the reality runs deeper.”
“Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.”