Attorney General William Barr has a Herculean task in running the Justice Department in these contentious times, but he will succeed in his task of cleaning out the Augean stable. A true insider at the Justice Department, he knows what a clean stable looks like.

In his book A Time to Build, Yuval Levin sets forth the premise that institutions have the important task of forming the people within them into having good work habits. “Insiders,” Levin posits, who have absorbed the ethic and ideals of the institution, are those who have been properly formed. The institution shapes behavior, building integrity. In this positive twist on the word, insiders are those hardworking individuals formed in character by their institutional experience.