I’d like to tell you about my friend Victoria Coates. You’ll be hearing a lot more from her, or about her. She is the foreign-policy aide to Ted Cruz. (My disclosure, by the way.) I have known her for some years. She is an art historian — taught at the University of Pennsylvania. Her forthcoming book is David’s Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art.

The art historian found herself on Donald Rumsfeld’s staff — or rather, he asked her to join it, and she did. She then worked for Rick Perry. And now she’s with Ted.

I was thinking of writing a piece, introducing her to y’all, but National Journal has beaten me to it, here. You’ll enjoy getting to know her. A marvelous and unusual person. On the side — not that she has many off hours — I think she should start an organization called Art Historians for Cruz.