Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Michael Sullivanis an English author, editor, and blogger. Sullivan is a conservative political commentator, a former editor of The New Republic, and the author or editor of six books. He was a pioneer of the political blog, starting his in 2000. He eventually moved his blog to various publishing platforms, including Time, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and finally an independent subscription-based format. He announced his retirement from blogging in 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth10 August 1963
CountryUnited States of America
Andrew Sullivan quotes about
I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.
Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.
I must say that the Katrina response does help me better understand the situation in Iraq, ... The best bet is that the president doesn't actually know what's happening there, is cocooned from reality, has no one in his high-level staff able to tell him what's actually happening, and has created a culture of denial and loyalty that makes fixing mistakes or holding people accountable all but impossible.
In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.
Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value.
Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on the sidewalks, with that sweet yet nauseating smell of decomposing groceries sitting in the humid fetid air, and rancid food juices oozing over the sticky sidewalks. With my windows open to counter the stuffiness, I could occasionally catch a whiff of the stench outside. People actually like living in this chaotic, fetid monument to incompetence? Beats me.
When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.