A bureaucracy, like a garage, should be hosed down periodically, to dislodge the stray bits of power accumulating in its crevices and corners like dust and dirt.
Jun 262019
Jun 252019
Discursive prose was a brief and happy interlude in human history: at the beginning were drums and chants, and so it shall be at the end.
Jun 242019
The idea that smoke implies fire cannot survive a professional class of industrious smoke merchants.
Jun 212019
A lot of people who don’t believe in God believe in Santa Claus.
Jun 202019
Bad people are a fertile and oft-neglected source of good ideas.
Jun 192019
Popular sovereignty democratizes everything but rule.
Jun 182019
Many famous and respectable men are incompletely domesticated, and now and then one will do or say something to sabotage his reputation, as a bear will gnaw off its leg to get out of a trap.
Jun 172019
It is natural to demand special consideration for your feelings if you can’t think.
Jun 142019
Good requires the willingness, now and then, to look bad.
Jun 132019
Populism is mostly the desire for better elites.