The ideal subject population must be able to absorb the regime’s propaganda as well as willing to believe it — credulous, but literate.
Jan 062022
Jan 052022
Some respect is due the man who sells himself dear.
Jan 042022
Meddling begins in opinion.
Jan 032022
Things were so much better when you were.
Dec 312021
What has disappeared, with the decline of formal religion, is not religion but formality.
Dec 302021
Biology is upstream of everything.
Dec 292021
To write, to attempt to bring a stranger to one’s view by words alone, shows the deepest faith in human nature: the confirmed skeptic becomes a devout missionary when he puts it on the page.
Dec 282021
Biography is open to any writer who possesses industry without talent. If he also lacks industry, there is memoir.
Dec 272021
There is a limit to the number of people who can be sanely ruled under a single polity, a Dunbar’s Number for governance. It is probably greater than 150 and certainly less than 300 million.
Dec 242021
Some jobs you keep only if you solve the problem you are charged with, others only if you don’t.