The price of writing for one audience is the others.
Feb 072020
Feb 062020
Identity is a checklist. If you check certain boxes you will be expected to check others, and individuality is demonstrated by checking a few boxes from the wrong column.
Feb 052020
We venerate artists who die too young to answer questions.
Feb 042020
It is always important, in evaluating a policy, to consider how many people you will have to kill to implement it.
Feb 032020
There’s nothing wrong with narcissism that better narcissists can’t fix.
Jan 312020
Government, though it never depends on the consent of the governed, often depends on large numbers of the governed believing that it does.
Jan 302020
There are people who ask strangers and bare acquaintances impertinent questions as if they were entitled to an answer. Sometimes they turn professional, and become journalists.
Jan 292020
Like Russians for Stalin, many Americans are nostalgic for a time when we all thought the same, or at least we all thought we did.
Jan 282020
Enlightenment philosophy is Christianity without the serpent.
Jan 272020
For every hundred ringing declarations in favor of freedom of speech or the press there are none in favor of freedom of association.