We punish speech because we have yet to devise an effective way to punish thought.
Sep 172021
Sep 162021
We have reached the point in the history of the West where improvements in small things can no longer mask declines in large ones.
Sep 152021
Love-conquers-all is the dullest story in the world. In most of the interesting stories love conquers nothing whatever.
Sep 142021
The logic of stealing an election demands the vigorous suppression of claims that it was stolen.
Sep 132021
Choose your rabbit holes wisely.
Sep 102021
To choose a side of history is to excuse implicitly the atrocities committed in its name.
Sep 092021
The modern corporation has turned business — a glamorous pursuit, full of intrigue, danger, and deceit — into bureaucratic drudgery. This is its unpardonable sin.
Sep 082021
When there are two opposed opinions, each widely held, the truth generally lies on a large ellipse with those two points as the foci.
Sep 072021
The world has always fought over ideas, whose truth is at best a minor strategic advantage.
Sep 062021
Evil is the officer corps in the army of stupid.