Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.

Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.