100 Quotes by Ben Domenech

Ordinary people in such positions - working at firms, companies, or chains - have the absolute right to have their voice in the public square.

Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn't overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good.

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

There are consequences for just expressing generally conservative views. And if those views take on the more extreme dint, the judgment can be swift.

Trump is playing to an audience of people who think of themselves less as Republicans and more as Americans - moderates, conservatives, and independents - who feel that the Republican Party has completely ignored their priorities and beliefs and insulted them along the way.

Trump knows where his strengths exist, and he is emphatically in favor of doubling down on them. This goes far beyond appointing Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

The ongoing argument over whether the Enlightenment is a good thing is hardly a new facet of American political life.

It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that there was not just one.

I've rooted all my life for a marginal team.