We preach for our politics, and for our religion, but preachers for art are known as “critics” and justly regarded as an alien species.
Mar 142023
Mar 132023
Superlatives have driven out comparatives, as bad money drives out good.
Mar 102023
In the end, lies may be no match for truth, but no one knows, and the end is far, far away.
Mar 092023
Things are not always what they seem, but that’s the way to bet.
Mar 082023
Heidegger was not a bad philosopher because he became a Nazi. But he may have become a Nazi because he was a bad philosopher.
Mar 072023
The East, the West, the classical and Christian, the medieval and modern, the peasantry, the proletariat, the bourgeoisie, the 18th, 19th, 20th century — what intellectual malfeasance shelters under the definite article!
Mar 062023
The more you hope a story is true, the likelier it is to be false.
Mar 032023
A theory of mind must account for the existence of theories of mind.
Mar 022023
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not because it is subjective, but because it must be noticed.
Mar 012023
Unambiguous instances of humans overriding their biology are scarce, and suicide, the most drastic, commands respect, if only on that score.