Mike Kelly [from The Atlantic] called me up and said he could pay me less money.
Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.