To undermine a principle, profess fealty to it while insisting that every applicable case is a unique circumstance that dictates its temporary suspension.
Jan 112022
Jan 102022
An aphorism should look wrong to half its readers and obvious to the other half.
Jan 072022
Few can choose a number between 0 and 100.
Jan 062022
The ideal subject population must be able to absorb the regime’s propaganda as well as willing to believe it — credulous, but literate.
Jan 052022
Some respect is due the man who sells himself dear.
Jan 042022
Meddling begins in opinion.
Jan 032022
Things were so much better when you were.
Dec 312021
What has disappeared, with the decline of formal religion, is not religion but formality.
Dec 302021
Biology is upstream of everything.
Dec 292021
To write, to attempt to bring a stranger to one’s view by words alone, shows the deepest faith in human nature: the confirmed skeptic becomes a devout missionary when he puts it on the page.