A Critical Task

The forces going on in the society are not things the media can prevent or change.  But we can and should help understand this crisis and warn against false solutions.  If feelings are trumping arguments -- the pun is fully intended -- it doesn’t mean that arguments don’t still have to be made.  It may not win the news cycle.  It may not even win this election cycle.  But it’s a critical task.

-- Andrew Sullivan (1963-), libertarian conservative author and political commentator, as quoted in "Andrew Sullivan on His Brief Return to the Online Political Fray" by Jennifer Schuessler, in The New York Times, 29 July 2016