Commentary Some time ago, I began keeping a file marked “Conservative Gloominess.” It’s full of articles and animadversions by various hands: dire prognostications about who the next occupant of the White House will be, harrowing descriptions of disarray among conservatives, despairing portraits of U.S. or European society. What’s odd, or at least uncharacteristic, about these…

Commentary Leadership is a double-barrelled quality. It calls for both personal inspiration and the ability to inspire others. People who go out of their way to invite others to dream bigger, learn more, think more carefully, collaborate and take action, become enormously influential. Such was the legacy of the recently deceased American journalist and author…