The crisis is not that the press is distrusted: the press has always been distrusted. The crisis is that this has finally dawned on the press.
May 032022
May 022022
A civilization that values chiefly what it can measure will produce expensive ugliness, as we observe.
Apr 292022
The ability to devise a good story has nothing in common with the ability to write tolerable prose.
Apr 282022
“Who would do something that stupid?” This is the Inanity Defense, and it should never be believed.
Apr 272022
Bad behavior is caused by the desire to behave badly.
Apr 262022
That we live in a simulation no one doubts. The only point at issue is whose.
Apr 252022
Things always make sense, though we rarely do.
Apr 222022
Agency — use it or lose it.
Apr 212022
An event scheduled long in advance grows ominous as it nears: one resents one’s past self for impudently binding the present.
Apr 202022
We complain of government inefficiency and unaccountability, instead of government mass murder, wholesale theft, and miseducation of our children by force, which makes our own supine posture rather too apparent.