Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Appearances do not always deceive. We are once again laboring in those fecund if weed-strewn fields where ...

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It didn’t take long for Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado lawmaker who is actively exploring a 2020 presidential run, to realize how much Democrats in Iowa knew about him as he stepped into the first ...