A man with a fixed idea is like a small child with a secret — he tries to hide it but he cannot help himself, and before long some slight provocation will send it gushing forth.
May 132022
May 122022
One’s former selves ought to be labeled with subscripts for the year, like isotopes with their atomic weights.
May 112022
One is the trustiest sample size.
May 102022
The frequency of demands for citations and evidence varies inversely with the capacity to understand them. “Source?” is a verbal tic, like Tourette’s.
May 092022
The writer who does not disappoint in person has left too little of himself on the page.
May 062022
Follow the science, at a discreet distance, say five or ten years.
May 052022
Some feel a small secret joy when breaking a rule, others when following one.
May 042022
Without gods, religions run amok.
May 032022
The crisis is not that the press is distrusted: the press has always been distrusted. The crisis is that this has finally dawned on the press.
May 022022
A civilization that values chiefly what it can measure will produce expensive ugliness, as we observe.