There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are.