This country has always been a big, beautiful land of contradictions.

Here’s what truly fresh thinking would look like instead.

Remembering William Langewiesche, who died this week at age 70

“Here were no humiliating terms of submission imposed on a brave people: no amnesty qualifications exacted; no banishment or confiscation laws; no test-oaths, to incite to perjury or foster the resentments of war.”

And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”

The president proposes a terrible solution to a very real problem.