One is the trustiest sample size.
May 112022
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.
Apr 292022
The ability to devise a good story has nothing in common with the ability to write tolerable prose.
Apr 282022
“Who would do something that stupid?” This is the Inanity Defense, and it should never be believed.