The law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, and this, precisely, is the source of its majesty.
Aug 172018
Aug 162018
Secret police at all times and places have been delighted by the size and enthusiasm of their volunteer auxiliaries.
Aug 152018
There are two reasons to be optimistic about children: parents don’t affect them much, and neither does school.
Aug 142018
Tenure would be an ideal system for the protection of heretical ideas if it were ever given to a person who might express one.
Aug 132018
The phone completes your sentences and soon it will complete your thoughts.
Aug 102018
Ideologies overtly hostile to civilization are among its less fortunate byproducts.
Aug 092018
There are people who say a lot of true things, and people who say a lot of insightful things, but not the same people.
Aug 082018
Enthusiastic agreement is an infallible sign that you have not been understood.
Aug 072018
Humans are so ill-equipped to think about conspiracies that they infect and derange our thinking in the few areas in which we are usually competent.
Aug 062018
If you simply must go to the demonstration, get a sitter.