In the spring of 2012, I found myself alone for several minutes in a network green room with Ben Bradlee, the legendary editor of the Washington Post, who was at the helm of the paper during its glory days of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.
It being an election year, our conversation turned to politics and Bradlee told me something that was utterly surprising coming from a veteran Washington editor: that he didn’t vote in elections.
Matthew J. Franck is a senior fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, contributing editor to Public Discourse, visiting lecturer in politics at Princeton University, and professor emeritus of political science at Radford University.
