[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.
Jonah GoldbergIf you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.
Jonah GoldbergI am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.
Jonah GoldbergHistorians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.
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