The mark of the journalist is to confuse truth with accuracy.
Jan 242017
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.
Jan 132017
Major vices are too alien and fascinating to earn our unalloyed contempt; we reserve that for minor ones.
Jan 122017
An idea both novel and interesting is almost surely wrong.
Jan 112017
A career can be fashioned from a single idea. Two may be tolerated. Three or more are fatal.