First Law of Social Science: All effects are weaker than they appear.
Jun 122015
Jun 112015
Unduly harsh sentences indicate not law and order, but its opposite: that almost no one gets caught.
Jun 102015
Hate speech, n. Speech you hate.
Jun 092015
Truth is often radically antipodal, but never moderate.
Jun 082015
Celebrity is the sound of the gates closing on your identity forever.
Jun 052015
The satirist’s punishment is praise from his intended victims.
Jun 042015
Abstinence makes the will grow firmer.
Jun 032015
The bore is the tyrant of private life.
Jun 022015
Fortune does not favor the bold; it only encounters them more often.
Jun 012015
Men sometimes stumble into vast fortunes, despite manifest incompetence, bad character, and borderline imbecility. Never give up.