Insider's Account of Newspapering By One of the Greats

Talk about a newspaperman's sense of timing. President Trump has upended the Republican presidential calculus. He's sidelined — at least for now — many of the intellectuals who had held sway in the party since the rise of Ronald Reagan. He's launched an America First policy that rejects the instincts of the long-reigning neoconservatives. Even in victory the party is rethinking its core principles.