Ray Haynes: Why Republicans Should Support the Popular VoteThe Right-“In the battleground states, since 2000, Republicans have won the popular vote four out of six times. In fact, Donald Trump—in 2020—won the battleground states by over 2.1 million votes.”Henri Mattila1/19/2021
Kevin Williamson: How to Improve the Lot of Those Left BehindThe Right-“And he wrote this very famous novel called Infinite Jest, which he described as a very sad book about the pursuit of happiness. And so, I think in some ways, I’ve written a very sad book about the pursuit of happiness as well.”Thomas Koenig1/9/2021
Alfie Bown: Where Politics and Gaming MeetThe Left-“I think there’s great potential in video games. In some ways, they are the primary space in which the culture wars are now being fought.”Al Binns1/8/2021
Thomas Ricks: Politics, as Seen from Aristotle to TrumpThe Left-“And so I remembered from college: When you’re facing a problem that seems deeply puzzling, go back to fundamentals, go to first principles. So I took Aristotle’s Politics off my shelf, my old college copy, and reread it in the context of the election of Donald Trump.”Thomas Koenig1/7/2021
H. R. McMaster: How He Sees China, and the WorldThe Center-“And so I think we have to resist the tendency to try to define a new administration’s foreign policy mainly as an opposition to the administration that came before it.”Thomas Koenig12/30/2020
Rep.-elect Carolyn Bourdeaux: Why She Ran, and Hope for the FutureThe Left-“One of the big issues was health care reform; my own parents struggled with the cost of prescription medications, using up all of their discretionary income to pay for my father’s insulin and other medications.”Henri Mattila12/18/2020
Grant McCracken: Why We Need to Bring Back HonorThe Center-“I studied Elizabethan England as a graduate student. It was a society governed by ideas of honor, and I thought, ‘Wow. Maybe some of those ideas could be returned to usefulness.'”Olivia Malloy12/4/2020
Congressman-elect Burgess Owens on Issues to Tackle in OfficeThe Right-“Al Davis used to say, ‘Just win, baby.’ And I tell you that’s what Americans do best. Once we wake up, once we’re engaged, once we know that our culture is at risk, we come together and start communicating. Across-party lines, Democrats and Republicans start to talk, and we rise.”Henri Mattila11/25/2020