It is always important, in evaluating a policy, to consider how many people you will have to kill to implement it.
Feb 042020
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.
Jan 242020
Ordinary men can do abominable things, abominable men can do magnificent things, and whatever you think you know about a man it’s not enough.
Jan 232020
Utter dissociation of thought and action is normal; for its opposite we reserve special terms, like saint, or fanatic, or fool.
Jan 222020
The critic’s indispensable service is not to praise greatness, which makes its own way in the world, but to refrain from praising mediocrity, which requires his assistance.