No matter how the world appears to be improving, it always feels like it’s falling apart.
Oct 262022
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You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
Oct 202022
Every group exists by discriminating, and every campaign against its discrimination is a campaign against the group.
Oct 132022
All Canadians are experts on American politics in the way all childless people, who experience children mostly as squalling public nuisances, are experts on child-rearing.
Oct 112022
Many a reputation has been made by dying at just the right time.
Sep 292022
At high stakes one must forget them.
Sep 262022
At every public lecture the audience, no matter how small, includes at least one member who doesn’t have a question, exactly, more like a comment.
Sep 192022
Few men improve upon closer acquaintance, and none indefinitely.
Aug 182022
There may never be a cure for every disease, but there will soon be a disease for every cure.
Jul 252022
Everything you hear about polite company seems calculated to drive you into the arms of the impolite.
Jul 182022
Science is like the best athlete in gym class — nobody really likes him, but everybody wants him on his team.