A name can confirm understanding, or confound it, but never confer it.
Sep 282023
Sep 272023
The enduring lessons of the First World War are how not to fight a war and why not to fight one.
Sep 262023
Accurate measurement created much of the modern world, not least its tendency to take variation for apocalypse.
Sep 252023
We credit vaccines with what we owe to sanitation, and the rest of medicine with what we owe to vaccines.
Sep 222023
Pretentious nonsense is written in a certain unmistakable cadence, a low hum calculated to lull you into acquiescence through inattention. You’re not supposed to try too hard to piece the meaning together, and you are always sorry if you do.
Sep 212023
In any reference to “X-figures”, the first figure is 1.*
*If it is “mid X-figures”, the first figure is 2. If it is “high X-figures”, the first figure is 5.
Sep 202023
It was the best of both worlds, it was the worst of both worlds.
Sep 192023
No exit, no voice.
Sep 182023
The market is always rising for jeremiads on decline.
Sep 152023
Transhumanist hell is other frozen heads.