Bret Stephens Quotes
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Voter fraud is a reality in American elections, but it is typical of the candidate to confuse anecdote with data and turn allegation into conspiracy.
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I am sorry that Mr. Cheney, and every other supporter of enhanced interrogation techniques, has to defend the practices as if they were torture. They are not.
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The people we need to hear from most are the ones who make themselves heard least - except, of course, on Election Day.
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Liberals always cry wolf.
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I almost never listen to radio or watch political talk shows, especially if I happen to be on them.
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The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.
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Barack Obama is probably the coolest president this country will ever have.
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The intelligent defense of free speech should not rest on the notion that we must tolerate every form of speech, no matter how offensive. It's that we should lean toward greater tolerance for speech we dislike, and reserve our harshest penalties only for the worst offenders.
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I think there's always merit in getting out of our ideological silos and being exposed to points of view with which we don't always agree.
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We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
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I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.
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Since the end of World War II, U.S. presidents of both parties have recognized that foreign and domestic policy do not have to be pursued at the expense of each other.
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The best scientific evidence suggests temperatures are rising, and the best scientific evidence suggests man-made anthropogenic carbon emissions have some substantial thing to do with that. However, does that mean the trend will continue forever? We don't know.
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Donald Trump's more sophisticated defenders have long since mastered the art of pretending that the only thing that matters with his presidency is what it does, not what he says.
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Socialism may have failed as an economic theory, but global warming alarmism, with its dire warnings about the consequences of industry and consumerism, is equally a rebuke to capitalism.
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Down with politics and the art of the possible; up with pronouncements and the allure of the prophetic: It's the way of demagogues everywhere.
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I will never vote for Donald Trump.
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What too many of Mr. Trump's supporters want is an American strongman, a president who will make the proverbial trains run on time.
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The United States can only lead a world that's prepared to follow.
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I think that for the United States, Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about Donald Trump.
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It's normal that elections make fierce partisans of many of us. It's normal that Mr. Trump would attract the usual right-wing buffoons to his banners. Normal, also, is that many voters may not be troubled by Mr. Trump's cruder statements when they hear him addressing their deepest economic and social anxieties.
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There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.
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I don't see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it's slightly less bad than the opposition.
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My wife is German, so I know something about German energy policy.