Ben Domenech

I stopped being a Republican because of the Iraq War.

— Ben Domenech

Being a bureaucrat means never having to say you're sorry.

— Ben Domenech

You should never meet your heroes.

— Ben Domenech

At 26, I barely knew who I was.

— Ben Domenech

I know that charges of plagiarism are serious.

— Ben Domenech

The biggest loser in 2016 was Washington, D.C.

— Ben Domenech

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

— Ben Domenech

I have seen cabinet secretaries who type with two fingers.

— Ben Domenech

We need a Moneyball revolution in the NFL. We need Spread teams and Run and Shoot teams and Option teams.

— Ben Domenech

Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended.

— Ben Domenech

Father John Misty imagines that he is a rebel. He is, but he does not realize what he is rebelling against.

— Ben Domenech

While I am not a journalist, I have, myself, written more than one thing that has been plagiarized in the past.

— Ben Domenech

Every day, we publish articles at 'The Federalist' with which I disagree.

— Ben Domenech

You shouldn't have to be a chair at a think tank to speak your mind.

— Ben Domenech

The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.

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

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Gawker was a site built to destroy lives. Its mission was to discover the worst moment in a person's life - and…

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If your team is good, you watch all the games - but if they're no fun to watch? You have a plethora…

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When contrarian voices are elevated to publications once viewed as places where contending ideas shared space, organized online backlash is now inevitable.

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Trump's rise was contingent on wide swaths of the country completely tuning out so-called mainstream media sources, while all too many outlets…

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To something that looks very different. The thing to understand here is that Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, they're not the disease and…

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Unilateral sanctions on Cuba have been oppressive and largely ineffective, and that's why the public largely supports lifting them.

— Ben Domenech

We have all had the experience at some point in our lives of sitting across from someone whose favorite subject is themselves.…

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In a time of fractured politics, our need for unifying cultural events is more acute, and particularly our need for creators who…

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Trump is playing to an audience of people who think of themselves less as Republicans and more as Americans - moderates, conservatives,…

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'Rogue One' does not feel like a 'Star Wars' movie. There are no scrolling yellow letters. There is no classic John Williams…

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When Barack Obama arrived in Washington, many in the media welcomed him with optimism as a historic figure focused on progressive change.…

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It is no accident that the place that lends itself to creating conflicts between the dominant order of thought and people who…

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Careful authors and journalists cultivate relationships with a wide variety of sources so as to avoid bad information or being led down…

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One of the frequent blind spots for economic libertarians, speaking as one who has personally dealt with this log in the eye,…

— Ben Domenech

A smart, intellectual magazine is a difficult thing to run because of the need to manage conflicting personalities and opinionated writers who…

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In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, everyone in America assumed that there would be wars to follow -…

— Ben Domenech

I love football. But it goes through periods of poor play.

— Ben Domenech

Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.

— Ben Domenech

It'd be nice to say that American media doesn't hate this country.

— Ben Domenech

We saw a true wave election in 2010 for Republicans. There was no such repudiation offered by Resistance Democrats in 2018.

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

— Ben Domenech

The government in Havana is best understood as a cross between violent left-wing radicals and organized crime.

— Ben Domenech

Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind.

— Ben Domenech

Belief that your tribe is good and other tribes are evil is what everyone thought for most of human history.

— Ben Domenech