The stupid American, as he is known the world over, mostly means the trusting American.
Aug 122021
Aug 112021
Rome’s interests, to Caesar, are indistinguishable from his own.
Aug 102021
Identity is partly inherited, and partly chosen, and not at all declared.
Aug 092021
Our ancestors attributed to the gods the vicissitudes of the weather, and we attribute to the President the vicissitudes of the stock market.
Aug 062021
We are to the immense wealth that swaddles us and the conditions that produced it as a fish to water — scarcely aware of it and shortly dead without it.
Aug 052021
Technology makes all our dreams come true, nightmares included.
Aug 042021
A country can vote itself into a lot more trouble than it can vote itself out of.
Aug 032021
True believers make the best publicists, and they work cheap.
Aug 022021
If you want power, fame is a liability.
Jul 302021
To live is to close one’s options.