A new idea is almost always false, and persecuted with special zeal when it happens to be true.
Aug 032023
Aug 022023
When distinguished people try to be common, common people no longer try to be distinguished.
Aug 012023
Our species owes its continued survival to the endowment effect.
Jul 312023
The man who has done nothing is nothing, and “identity” is the futile quest to conceal it.
Jul 282023
One sympathizes more and more with people as one knows them better, then less and less as one knows them better still.
Jul 272023
Journalism enjoyed a unique sunlit holiday of public trust, beginning with Murrow and ending with Woodward and Bernstein, which evokes intense nostalgia in journalists of a certain age. The historical norm, to which we have now reverted, is No Confidence Whatsoever.
Jul 262023
In sane times prizes are useless. They become useful in mad times, as negative indicators.
Jul 252023
The man who has done nothing is nothing, and “identity” is the futile quest to conceal it.
Jul 242023
Dog-whistling, n. The theory that demagogues communicate esoterically.
Jul 212023
What I cannot brook is agreement.