America Pays for Everything: A Brief History of the 20th Century
Apr 012021
Remembering
The obscurest epoch is today.
—Stevenson
Mar 262021
The keyboard warrior is sure that, in 1930s Germany, he would have fought for the resistance and not the Party, as the believer in reincarnation is sure that, in a past life in ancient Rome, she was the emperor’s favorite concubine.
Jan 282021
Fascism has often been popular. Communism has never been popular.
Dec 102020
The obscure artist awaits the verdict of posterity, unable to compete with the living, expecting to compete with the dead.
Nov 242020
The 20th century, among its various disgraces, managed to give both “science” and “rationality” a bad name.
Oct 152020
History repeats itself, as farce that is increasingly less funny.
Oct 052020
Greatest Evils of Communism
1. Millions dead
2. Widespread use of the term “bougie”
Sep 142020
About a century ago “poet” became a polite term for half-wit, and then it was “artist”, and it will be “scientist” sooner than you think.
Jul 092020
First we were killed by nature, then by rulers, and finally we resorted to killing ourselves.
Jun 102020
The contents of the dustbin of history are recycled endlessly.