We are told that the enemy is privilege; in fact it is distinction.
Jan 272017
Jan 262017
The demand for revelation has not slackened; the churches have merely lost their monopoly.
Jan 252017
Most of us have finally learned to stop glamorizing poverty; now if we could only learn to stop glamorizing wealth.
Jan 242017
The mark of the journalist is to confuse truth with accuracy.
Jan 232017
To speak for those who cannot speak for themselves is impossible and impertinent.
Jan 202017
That anything is good should always be a surprise.
Jan 192017
Having forgotten how to ask after truth, we ask after sincerity.
Jan 182017
Crime committed on a large enough scale ceases to be criminal. It becomes business as usual, or Realpolitik, or statesmanship.
Jan 172017
We generally adopt a new opinion by persuading ourselves that we have always held it.
Jan 162017
Reputations are made, and unmade, but never remade.