Jeremy Carl, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the State Department’s assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs, seems an odd choice to be a lightning rod for controversy. Still, Democratic senators and their echo chambers in the partisan press seek his scalp, accusing Carl of everything from white supremacy to being antisemitic.

Carl is none of these things. I have known him for 35 years since we were part of the same debating society at Yale, albeit on different sides. Carl distinguished himself both for his intellect and his willingness to ask tough questions or voice controversial propositions, not always because he believed them, but he wished to test conventional wisdom and provoke others to make their best arguments.

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Don’t take my word for it; take Secretary of State George Shultz, with whom Carl worked and who made Carl his de facto senior assistant and chief sounding board for more........

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