Plato on Participation
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your...
Category: Politics
Porn Stars
We are in a strange territory when beauty-pageant swimsuit competitions are evil relics of toxic masculinity — but...
Ending Suicide Bombing
"The only way we have left to control suicide-terrorists would be precisely to convince them that blowing themselves up...
Caring vs Knowing
"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care." Teddy...
The Most Important Election of Our Lifetimes
"We’re on, what, the eighth or ninth consecutive “most important election of our lifetimes”? In the past decades,...
The Lottery
"The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at...
Suicide of the West
Jonah Goldberg is a great writer and an even better researcher. In this book, which I will quote often in maxim posts,...
Economics and Dictators
"Dictators are rarely good economic managers." WSJ editorial referring to Turkey and Venezuela For every Lee Kwan Yoo...
A Liberal Mind
"A liberal is a man so broad-minded that he won't take his own side in an argument." Robert Frost From Suicide of the...
War
War is a game to be played with a smiling face. Winston Churchill In 1916 during his four months in the trenches in...
