The end does not justify the means: it is the means.
Mar 192019
Mar 182019
Not everything is as dumb as it looks, but that’s the way to bet.
Mar 152019
To win at politics requires commitment, and the committed party is the one to whose constituents politics offers the only chance of advancement.
Mar 142019
Truth or meaning: Choose one.
Mar 132019
Teaching everyone to read leaves the difficulty of supplying vast amounts of reading matter suitable for everyone.
Mar 122019
That there is nothing new under the sun is possibly the oldest argument under the sun.
Mar 112019
Rich societies produce leisure sufficient for folly, and democratic societies make this everybody’s problem.
Mar 082019
Exalt theory over practice, and youth over age will shortly follow.
Mar 072019
That the great are so rarely good speaks mostly to the poverty of our moral intuitions.
Mar 062019
Maybe it was the nerds who were evil all along.