Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.

Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.

It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.

It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.

If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.