It is shocking to see a man act on an idea.
Apr 192022
Apr 182022
Dead white men are to be disregarded in part because they are men, more because they are white, and most of all because they are dead.
Apr 152022
An urge becomes irresistible by not being resisted.
Apr 142022
Few mourn dueling, but many mourn the qualities that once induced men to duel.
Apr 132022
Where nonsense is tolerated, difficulty is banished.
Apr 122022
A law is a metric, and like any other metric it can and will be gamed.
Apr 112022
The characteristic maladies of our age are adult infantilism and childhood senescence.
Apr 082022
The desires to have one’s work understood, and oneself understood, are nearly opposite, and ought not to share a verb.
Apr 072022
It is by his diction, not his thought, that an acolyte may be infallibly recognized. If it consists of fashionable clichés, he has been colonized by a swarm instead of a man.
Apr 062022
Popular sovereignty in a democracy comes to resemble Swiss cheese, as ambitious men carve little chunks of political power out for themselves and proof them as best they can against the vagaries of elections. Eventually nothing is left but the holes.