To put it bluntly, the push for 'college for all' sets up students to fail. — Charlie Sykes College Copy Share Image
I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes. — Charlie Sykes Conservative Copy Share Image
At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy… — Charlie Sykes Academia Copy Share Image
You know something that you'll never hear on one of these cable talking-head shows? One of the guests going, 'Hmm, I don't… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
Victimism can be seen as a generalized cultural impulse to deny personal responsibility and to obsess on the grievances of the insatiable… — Charlie Sykes Identity Copy Share Image
Both the Left and the Right need to connect as people rather than as political entities. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
I am less horrified by Trump himself than by what he has done to the rationalizers and enablers. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
I feel dumber every time I listen to Sean Hannity. I don't want to be that guy. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
The shock of Trumpism has made me rethink what the conservative movement was about and who our allies were and what our… — Charlie Sykes Assumptions Copy Share Image
After 2008, I told people that conservatives were going to be invisible for a while. But, with time, our ideas would be back. — Charlie Sykes 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
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
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
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
White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would… — Charlie Sykes America 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
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 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
Despite the evidence that we already have too many students in higher education, the hot new idea among the political class is… — Charlie Sykes College tuition Copy Share Image
It turns out that many of the Trump voters who had said they wanted to burn it all down meant it, and… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
Unless you have experienced it, it's difficult to describe the virulence of the Twitter storms that were unleashed on Trump skeptics. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch. — Charlie Sykes Congress Copy Share Image
It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest. — Charlie Sykes Fight Copy Share Image
Reagan did not have to rely on or cope with talk radio, Fox News, Breitbart, or any of the other trolls that… — Charlie Sykes Conservative Copy Share Image
Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students. — Charlie Sykes Education Copy Share Image
We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
The GOP was once the party of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and John McCain. — Charlie Sykes 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 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
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
I knew Buckley - he was a friend of mine - and Steve Bannon is no William F. Buckley. Buckley marginalized the… — Charlie Sykes Friend Copy Share Image
There was always the paranoid strain in American politics, particularly on the Right. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by… — Charlie Sykes Competition Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler. — Charlie Sykes Child Copy Share Image
