We moderns have mastered the seemingly impossible trick of feeling superior to ourselves.
Jan 232018
Jan 222018
A government not of men but of laws — written by men, interpreted by men, and enforced by men.
Jan 192018
The stupid kids turned out to be not quite as stupid as we thought, and the smart kids nowhere near as smart.
Jan 182018
There is a level of generality — the airport-book level — on which every thesis is exactly as plausible as its opposite.
Jan 172018
We say that the perfect is the enemy of the good when we mean that the adequate is the enemy of the shoddy.
Jan 162018
The greater good is distant and speculative: the lesser evil required to achieve it is immediate and certain.
Jan 152018
Understanding looks, to others, like forgiveness; and forgiveness, to oneself, like understanding.
Jan 122018
No complicated idea has ever had much influence in the world.
Jan 112018
It wasn’t funny the first time either.
Jan 102018
What you call hypocrisy I call hedging against the possibility that one’s beliefs are in error.