To tyrannize over a people it is necessary to humiliate them, and nothing is more humiliating than declaring normal acts heinous crimes.
Mar 062020
Mar 052020
A nation that regards speech as the fundamental liberty is a nation unable to keep its mouth shut.
Mar 042020
The loss of America’s appetite for full-on war has whetted it for petty military adventure.
Mar 032020
Ideology readily replaces identity: both hinge on what and whom to hate.
Mar 022020
Writing carries the small but ever-present danger of being understood.
Feb 282020
The good reader blames himself first for obscurity, and to punish this habit with nonsense is worse than bad writing: it is depraved conduct.
Feb 272020
It is perfectly possible to hate people without killing them, and vice versa.
Feb 262020
Though modern society generally punishes stupidity, it allows certain specialized forms of it, often confused with intelligence, to flourish.
Feb 252020
Many academic fields are barren, most because there are no truths to discover, not a few because the practitioners are too dull to discover them.
Feb 242020
Ugly furniture lasts forever.