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- Acknowledge that contemporary categories of political belief are a product of for-profit media discourse.
- Read history: there is a balance of forces, always. There is push and pull. The wisest historical actors are not in the middle — they on both sides at once; they are everywhere.
- Stop being a political brand, be a political person.
- Be historical: find your historical roots in the physical world, they will teach you more about your political identity than cable news.
- Read Emerson: the greatest American political thinker — and the least categorizable.
- Think about what’s right, not about what’s ideologically correct. Think for yourself.
- Forget about economics altogether. Economics is not only the dismal science, it is an inhuman one. Give up the obsession with quantative analysis — return to the qualitative. Literally: seek quality.
- Remain local, forget the national — it is a terrible, distracting dream.
