There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes over time, that can change sometimes by the minute, if circumstances intervene. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
You know, what genuinely makes me uneasy with the way things are going are not - is not really that Trump is going to… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a race that… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame,… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
