All things are relative, but some are more relative than others.
Feb 212017
Feb 202017
You are an ideologue if your views can be inferred from your vocabulary.
Feb 172017
Writers can write nonsense without ill effect. It is when readers put up with, then expect, and finally demand it that civilization ends.
Feb 162017
Elite political opinion is influential because it is believed to be. When the belief disappears, so does the influence.
Feb 152017
You can have nice things, or you can let everybody use them.
Feb 142017
Knowing that we are not well, we hastily conclude that we are ill.
Feb 132017
To lose one’s money folly used to be enough; today it also requires ambition.
Feb 102017
Great innovations appear made by many simultaneously, because we consign to obscurity anyone more than a week or two ahead of his time.
Feb 092017
Your counterexample is my special circumstance in which the stipulated conditions do not obtain.
Feb 082017
The medieval church had a juster claim as guardian of the life of the mind than the contemporary university.