One of the benefits of being a military kid was that before I was twelve years old I had been on a couple of coast-to-coast drives. When I was seventeen we embarked on the last one, leaving Northern Virginia in June and arriving in Los Angeles in July, stopping in various unheralded places on the …
Here’s an Esquire editorial remembering Oklahoma City, remarking on the Tucson shootings and what has happened on the political right since: There was a lot of what was called “defensiveness” on the activist Right, but it was nothing of the sort. They were on offense, just the way they have been since they took that …