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Article snippet: The political news cycle is fast, and keeping up can be overwhelming. Trying to find differing perspectives worth your time is even harder. That’s why we have scoured the internet for political writing from the right and left that you might not have seen. Has this series exposed you to new ideas? Tell us how. Email us at ourpicks@nytimes.com. • Jonathan S. Tobin in National Review: “The problem is that both parties seem to have lost the ability to oppose an administration or candidate without seeking to ‘lock up’ the other side.” Mr. Tobin is concerned about both parties’ impulse to respond to election losses with accusations of criminal misconduct. It’s possible, he writes, “that Trump, Flynn, and Kushner are guilty of serious crimes, but at the moment the public evidence for that assertion is virtually nonexistent.” Read more » _____ • Rod Dreher in The American Conservative: “A lot of us conservatives have made hay out of illiberalism on campus, but now we have an egregious, high-profile example of brutal behavior on our side.” In addition to the spread of “lock them up” rhetoric across parties, this week Mr. Dreher saw another troubling trend in the coarsening of American politics. Beginning with an explanation for why he decided to turn down a speaking invitation from Middlebury College, Mr. Dreher writes that he’d rather go to a school where the students will engage within the “bounds of civil discourse.” He then condemns those on the right who fail to rebu... Link to the full article to read more