Brooding Quote by Charlie Pierce

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

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

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

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

— Charlie Pierce

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

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

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

In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.

— Charlie Pierce

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

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

— Charlie Pierce

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

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