Humans are so ill-equipped to think about conspiracies that they infect and derange our thinking in the few areas in which we are usually competent.
Aug 072018
Aug 062018
If you simply must go to the demonstration, get a sitter.
Aug 032018
Why does Hollywood hate capitalism? You would too, if you thought it looked like Hollywood.
Aug 022018
The true problem of evil is not arid and theological, but urgent and practical: malice, or stupidity?
Aug 012018
Relativism is less a philosophy than an excuse.
Jul 312018
Announcing that you will not be silenced should be legal grounds for doing so.
Jul 302018
So the last shall be told that they are first, and the first that they are last: for many be hectored, but few persuaded.
Jul 272018
You can stay in a huff forever, but not the same huff.
Jul 262018
Many people I like aren’t my friends, and some of my friends I don’t much like.
Jul 252018
To imagine not knowing what we know is the indispensable habit of the historian; its opposite is easier to master.