Those who say they don’t believe in love, or art, or politics, or God, always believe acutely, piercingly, in their disbelief.
Mar 072017
Mar 062017
Anti-colonialism, n. The belief that local traditional cultures must be protected and preserved, unless they involve Christianity or NASCAR.
Mar 032017
Plastic surgery has done more for human happiness than psychopharmacology.
Mar 022017
Not to opine in public on matters that surpass one’s understanding — this is the most neglected of civic duties.
Mar 012017
Every discipline attempts to transfer sovereignty from the consumer to the producer; “professionalism” is our name for a successful coup.
Feb 282017
Self-criticism, painful as it may be, at least affords the opportunity to think about oneself.
Feb 272017
Leader, n. The champion follower.
Feb 242017
Every feasible technology will be used, and every admitted principle will be exploited.
Feb 232017
History is hard to start and impossible to stop.
Feb 222017
Collegiality is implacably hostile to independence of mind, and it can be avoided only by not having colleagues.