Regressions Toward the Mean
5. John Podhoretz
4. Charlie Sheen / Emilio Estevez
3. The Rockefellers
2. The family business
1. The Kennedys
Apr 172018
Apr 162018
The great age is now, and has nearly always been now.
Apr 132018
A dangerous idea must be, if not true, at least plausible.
Apr 122018
No conversation has ever been preceded by a demand for one.
Apr 112018
Always speak Truth to Power, once you’re sure Power isn’t going to option your novel.
Apr 102018
The world will end; and, tragically, no one will survive to say I told you so.
Apr 092018
The argument is for feeling good about the invective, and the invective is for feeling good about oneself.
Apr 062018
Good manners consists in asking quiet people why they won’t talk and not asking noisy ones why they won’t shut up.
Apr 052018
It was a distinctively contemporary utopia, a world in which one was never contradicted.
Apr 042018
Journalists, Kraus said, are writers who do not understand their subject — for which their remedy is to read each other assiduously.