I have long admired Paul Ryan and thought of him as the future of the Republican Party. — Charlie Sykes Future Copy Share Image
Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it. — Charlie Sykes Culture Copy Share Image
Denouncing Nazis is the easiest thing in the world: All it requires is a modicum of historical perspective and a working moral… — Charlie Sykes Moral Copy Share Image
To finally reform higher education, we should start by asking fundamental questions, such as, Why does it take four years to get… — Charlie Sykes Education Copy Share Image
Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter. — Charlie Sykes Better Copy Share Image
As our politics have become more polarized, the essential loyalties shift from ideas to parties to tribes to individuals. Nothing else ultimately… — Charlie Sykes Ideas Copy Share Image
If a university announced that henceforth, it would be offering a three-year bachelor's degree, in one stroke it would cut the cost… — Charlie Sykes College Copy Share Image
Conservatives spent an awful long time ignoring things: the birthers, the bigots, the xenophobes, the alternative-reality media. We had assumed that they… — Charlie Sykes Bigots Copy Share Image
The dumbing down of elementary and secondary education has made its way to the collegiate level; too many unprepared students are admitted… — Charlie Sykes Education Copy Share Image
As the Right doubles down on anti-anti-Trumpism, it will find itself goaded into defending and rationalizing ever more outrageous conduct just as… — Charlie Sykes Find Copy Share Image
The primary victory of Roy Moore in Alabama over the candidate for the U.S. Senate seat backed by President Trump suggests that… — Charlie Sykes Alabama Copy Share Image
Some people ask how the conservative media can continue to defend Trump. It's very easy for them: No matter how bad Trump… — Charlie Sykes Bad Copy Share Image
One of the surprises to me was the willingness of many people in the conservative media to roll over, to abandon long-held… — Charlie Sykes Conservative Copy Share Image
In our era of zero tolerance, I would surely have spent most of elementary and middle school shuttling between suspensions and expulsions,… — Charlie Sykes Education Copy Share Image
A lot of Americans do not have an appreciation for our history. They do not understand the Constitution, why we have these… — Charlie Sykes Americans Copy Share Image
In many ways, anti-anti-Trumpism mirrors Donald Trump himself because, at its core there are no fixed values, no respect for constitutional government… — Charlie Sykes Character Copy Share Image
On his first full day in office, Mr. Trump insisted that his inaugural crowd was the largest ever, a baseless boast that… — Charlie Sykes Day Copy Share Image
With a vast majority of conservative voters and listeners solidly behind Mr. Trump, conservative critics of the president find themselves isolated and… — Charlie Sykes Conservative Copy Share Image
The conservative media ecosystem - like the rest of us - has to recognize how critical, but also how fragile, credibility is… — Charlie Sykes Age Copy Share Image
For years, Republicans have effectively outsourced their thought leadership to the loudmouths at the end of the bar. But perhaps the most… — Charlie Sykes Amendment Copy Share Image
The professors - working steadily and systematically - have destroyed the university as a center of learning and have desolated higher education,… — Charlie Sykes Education Copy Share Image
Across the country, universities that had abandoned in loco parentis in the 1960s because it was too oppressive and intrusive have replaced… — Charlie Sykes 1960s Copy Share Image
During dull moments at school, I admit, I not only drew soldiers shooting one another but also tanks, bombers, fighters, and even… — Charlie Sykes Moments Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill - Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much… — Charlie Sykes American greatness Copy Share Image
Since the election, President Trump has shown a persistent penchant for conspiracy-minded suggestions about his political opponents and elements of his own… — Charlie Sykes Conspiracy Copy Share Image
The N.R.A.'s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks - devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster - is designed to pre-empt anything… — Charlie Sykes Action Copy Share Image
In 2010, conservatives won big majorities in the Wisconsin State Legislature, and I openly supported many of their reforms, including changes to… — Charlie Sykes Big Copy Share Image
Fox News and other Trump-friendly media long ago became fever wards of speculation and conspiracy-mongering as they obsessed over plots from the… — Charlie Sykes Deep Copy Share Image
Reagan wrote out many of his radio commentaries and newspaper articles as well as many of his own speeches. He wrote poetry,… — Charlie Sykes Letters Copy Share Image
There once was a time when employers could be reasonably certain that college graduates had a basic sense of the world and,… — Charlie Sykes Business Copy Share Image
The thing most frightening about Donald Trump is he doesn't know what he doesn't know and doesn't seem to care about what… — Charlie Sykes Care Copy Share Image
I think of John McCain as a conservative, but he is clearly not the same kind of 'conservative' as, say, Rand Paul.… — Charlie Sykes Conservative Copy Share Image
