To prefer the strange to the familiar, the far to the near, is in an adolescent a pretentious and mildly endearing tic; in an adult, a disease.
Apr 022021
Apr 012021
America Pays for Everything: A Brief History of the 20th Century
Mar 312021
Behind every man who believes human nature can be remade at will stands a volunteer for the job.
Mar 302021
Fools come in two kinds: the Barren, whom nothing reminds of anything; and the Promiscuous, whom anything reminds of everything.
Mar 292021
It is strange, the way people will believe bizarre and byzantine theories about their rulers after years of being lied to by them continuously.
Mar 262021
The keyboard warrior is sure that, in 1930s Germany, he would have fought for the resistance and not the Party, as the believer in reincarnation is sure that, in a past life in ancient Rome, she was the emperor’s favorite concubine.
Mar 252021
Capitalism has been the only loyal friend of the unfit; no wonder they hate it so.
Mar 242021
The more features a product acquires, the worse it becomes at what it was originally designed to do.
Mar 232021
Every voter-registration campaign produces a less competent electorate; indeed, that is its aim.
Mar 222021
To destroy a man’s property is to nullify that part of his life devoted to its creation or acquisition. It is to kill him, insensibly and by degrees.