All popular conceptions of genius are meticulously constructed to flatter mediocrity.
Dec 292017
Dec 282017
The crank cannot be refuted, only dismissed.
Dec 272017
History is best read with a grand theory in mind. It will surely be false, but facts and incidents will cling to it like lint.
Dec 262017
Consensus, n. Huddling for warmth.
Dec 252017
The dots are mostly real, the connections mostly imagined.
Dec 222017
Today we publish all of our thoughts, except the interesting ones.
Dec 212017
It is when they swear to pay the money back that you can kiss it goodbye.
Dec 202017
America has allowed countless uneducated and unskilled people to become uneducated and unskilled people who have gone to college.
Dec 192017
Whatever the fanatic permits himself is a duty: whatever he denies himself is a crime.
Dec 182017
The consolation prize for being out of power is unswerving commitment to timeless civic principles.