Today’s politics has no Lenins, and few Stalins, but oh so many Kerenskys.
Feb 192021
Feb 182021
Every attack on the possibility of knowledge has been in service of beliefs that knowledge, were it possible, would immediately expose as false.
Feb 172021
Everyone cares less for the lives of millions of strangers than the life of his own dog; the modern derangement is to feel guilty about it.
Feb 162021
The Opinion-Censors, who tell us what we must think, persuade only the dullest. The Topic-Censors, who tell us what we must think about, pass largely unnoticed. It is the Method-Censors, living and dead, who tell us how we must think, who hold us all hopelessly in their thrall.
Feb 152021
There is always official doctrine, but it is unusual for the officials to be stupid enough to believe it.
Feb 122021
Debunked, adj. Denied.
Feb 112021
Don’t take this the right way.
Feb 102021
Analogously to Benford’s Law, 90% of the annotations in a used book occur in the first twenty pages.
Feb 092021
The good are not holy, and the holy are not good.
Feb 082021
No one wants to live more than four or five stories up.