There can be order without law, but not law without order.
Aug 102023
Aug 092023
Chico Marx: “Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?”
Modern Social Science: “The plural of anecdote is not data.”
Aug 082023
Untold human ingenuity has been expended to mask the taste of alcohol.
Aug 072023
Only a tiny minority of the employees of a large corporation concern themselves, even in an abstract and indirect way, with profit and loss.
Aug 042023
There is a modern branch of psychology, which deserves its own name, devoted to enumerating the defects of character in people who hold unauthorized opinions.
Aug 032023
A new idea is almost always false, and persecuted with special zeal when it happens to be true.
Aug 022023
When distinguished people try to be common, common people no longer try to be distinguished.
Aug 012023
Our species owes its continued survival to the endowment effect.
Jul 312023
The man who has done nothing is nothing, and “identity” is the futile quest to conceal it.
Jul 282023
One sympathizes more and more with people as one knows them better, then less and less as one knows them better still.