With so much bad writing about, it shows a deplorable lack of public spirit that so few will do their own small part to end it.
Jan 122023
Jan 112023
Science began to decline when we began to debate whether some particular bit of knowledge merited the term.
Jan 102023
“Have a nice day”, by convention, always closes an effort to spoil it.
Jan 092023
Americans don’t read for pleasure; the books we are assigned in high school see to that.
Jan 062023
Poetry and music continuously raise expectations in the listener. What is too conventional caters to them exactly; what is too unconventional does not cater to them at all.
Jan 052023
Tyranny is never frank, even with no reason to be anything else. It is forever wheedling, patronizing, solicitous, half high-school vice-principal and half kindergarten crossing-guard.
Jan 042023
Principles of Evolutionary Biology
1. It can be explained by natural selection.
2. If it cannot be explained by natural selection, it can be explained by sexual selection.
Jan 032023
Sometimes a story has one side, usually many, never two.
Jan 022023
All the glamor goes to purveying the false accusation, the bogus claim, the non-existent effect; all the labor, to refuting it.
Dec 302022
The life to be mined from art is not the artist’s but one’s own.