Declaring victory in an argument is the infallible sign that you have lost.
Feb 112020
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You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
Jan 162020
Anti-Semitism is marvelously economical; you can hate communism, globalism, the academy, television, international finance, journalism, and Hollywood, all at the same time.
Jan 062020
There are no atheists in casinos.
Dec 202019
To silence a disciple, steer him to a subject on which his master has not opined.
Dec 122019
The Efficient Action Hypothesis: If it were worth doing, someone would have done it already.
Dec 042019
If hope lay in the proles, there would be no hope, but it lies in the intellectuals, and there is no hope.
Nov 122019
The two worst generations are the next one and the last one, in that order.
Nov 062019
Suicide will never be common; it requires imagination.
Oct 302019
The realistic, democratic, and inclusive standard for beauty is ugliness.
Oct 212019
If it weren’t for politics, I would have to refuse more invitations.