Our species owes its continued survival to the endowment effect.
Aug 012023
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.
Jul 272023
Journalism enjoyed a unique sunlit holiday of public trust, beginning with Murrow and ending with Woodward and Bernstein, which evokes intense nostalgia in journalists of a certain age. The historical norm, to which we have now reverted, is No Confidence Whatsoever.
Jul 262023
In sane times prizes are useless. They become useful in mad times, as negative indicators.
Jul 252023
The man who has done nothing is nothing, and “identity” is the futile quest to conceal it.
Jul 242023
Dog-whistling, n. The theory that demagogues communicate esoterically.
Jul 212023
What I cannot brook is agreement.
Jul 202023
Every policy I support seems to threaten democracy itself.
Jul 192023
Islam is monotheist: Allah is always and everywhere the same. Christianity is polytheist: there are German, English, Latin, African, and American Christian gods, along with extinct historical versions, all incompatible and eternally at odds