In a democratic age manners and mores spread from top to bottom, then from bottom back to top.
Jul 082014
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You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
Jul 042014
Behind the insult “calculating” a whole moral history of humanity lies hidden.
Jun 192014
Anti-Semite: A person whom Jews hate.
Jun 102014
A civilization with elaborate manners is already half-dead.
May 212014
An electronic device that tracked your location at all times used to be a condition of parole.
May 162014
Rudeness is often permissible and sometimes mandatory.
May 072014
A country becomes civilized when its inhabitants can form an orderly queue.
May 062014
Imagination: Anthropomorphism run amok.
Feb 102014
People who do not say what they mean usually do not know what they mean.
Jan 242014
Anyone who hates children is paying them far too much attention.