Voting, like tattoos, diverts the urge toward self-expression from more noisome forms like speech.
May 012020
Apr 302020
Hating the people you disagree with is harmless; it’s liking the ones you agree with that’s dangerous.
Apr 292020
There are two kinds of governments: those, like absolute monarchies, that tell their subjects frankly who rules them; and those, like democracies, that lie about it.
Apr 282020
No matter how bad your argument is, you can be sure it’s not original.
Apr 272020
Hidden depths are only unrecorded thoughts, which have ceased to exist.
Apr 242020
Many social institutions, like religion, work best when no one knows quite how.
Apr 232020
We police others’ moods even more strictly than we police their thoughts.
Apr 222020
Competence dwarfs all other virtues, and nearly every moral system ever devised aims first at disguising that fact.
Apr 212020
If journalism is the first draft of history, we know how far to trust history.
Apr 202020
There are no double standards, only invidious criteria.