When bemoaning all that you should know, but do not, spare a thought for all that you should not know, but do.
May 282021
May 272021
Civil war in America would be imminent if it could be fought without getting off the couch.
May 262021
The map used not to be the territory: to make it so has been the great modern project.
May 252021
It is rare, in discursive writing, to encounter an argument at all, let alone a sound one.
May 242021
Don’t ask which of your beliefs are wrong. Ask which are pointless.
May 212021
It is possible, indeed necessary, to be both disgusted and amused.
May 202021
The state does not require or even seek your approval, only your acquiescence.
May 192021
Few of the useful idiots I have known have been any use to me.
May 182021
We affect to despise ignorant bigotry, when it is knowledgeable, highly cultivated bigotry that we really find objectionable.
May 172021
There is a great deal of ruin in a nation, and eventually it finds out how much.