I was in New England for a few days last week and found myself at breakfast one morning with a group of Armenian academics, born in Lebanon but now settled permanently in and around Boston. By any measure, they were a distinguished group—historians, physicians, political scientists—and for them, of course, the Big Story of the moment was the sudden resignation of the Lebanese prime minister, Saad Hariri.
On that subject I had nothing to tell them that they didn't already know. What they wanted from me, however, was some insight—any explanation, really—into what they considered the Big Story of American politics: division within the Republican party.
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