There Are Monsters in Your Midst, Too

Sometimes one sentence can be immensely clarifying.

Several years ago, when I worked at National Review, I was speaking to my colleague Michael Brendan Dougherty on a podcast about a familiar and depressing topic: partisan blindness. Why, when we can we see the evil in the opposition so clearly, are we blind to our own faults?

When my opponents do something wrong, that’s emblematic, Michael said, but when my allies do something wrong, that’s exceptional.