The subtle tempter praises mediocrity to attack excellence, and deviance to attack normality.
Sep 172019
Sep 162019
Merciful regimes kill the troublesome without insisting on reeducating them first.
Sep 132019
When Bentham designed the Panopticon, he did not anticipate so many volunteers.
Sep 122019
Yesterday’s distant dream, today’s brilliant innovation, tomorrow’s basic human right.
Sep 112019
Journalists used to be raffish and amusing liars, and they are no longer raffish or amusing.
Sep 102019
The proper end of politics is not to make life pleasant for yourself, your friends, and your allies, but to make it miserable for those whom you hate, envy, and fear.
Sep 092019
You are not better than this. You are not worse than this. You are exactly this.
Sep 062019
The best places don’t let people in, and the worst don’t let them out.
Sep 052019
Natural selection surely favors a disposition to attribute success to factors under one’s control.
Sep 042019
Never confess at the show trial. They shoot you anyway, then kill your wife and children.