The desires to have one’s work understood, and oneself understood, are nearly opposite, and ought not to share a verb.
Apr 082022
Apr 072022
It is by his diction, not his thought, that an acolyte may be infallibly recognized. If it consists of fashionable clichés, he has been colonized by a swarm instead of a man.
Apr 062022
Popular sovereignty in a democracy comes to resemble Swiss cheese, as ambitious men carve little chunks of political power out for themselves and proof them as best they can against the vagaries of elections. Eventually nothing is left but the holes.
Apr 052022
It is unjust to require IDs to vote. What ought to be required is an accurate statement of Arrow’s impossibility theorem.
Apr 042022
To publish one’s work is to send a grown child out into the world: henceforth it will have to fend for itself.
Apr 012022
No man accounts for his failures without resort to misfortune or injustice, and when they do not exist, he invents them.
Mar 312022
One World: No Exit.
Mar 302022
Science is Science, and Policy Policy, and never the twain shall meet.
Mar 292022
Not all religions proselytize, but all secular religions do.
Mar 282022
Americans understand nothing about the rest of the world, which returns the favor.