In fragile civilizations Power is used to acquire status And status is just for decoration In resilient civilizations Self-sacrifice is recognized as th…

It takes talent to write a hit pie… but anyone can write a puff piece that in thirty years will read as a hit piece

The mean streets of easy street Lack any meaning– To get there, try going crazy But everybody knows You’d be crazy to try

In the past walking into a cathedral made you feel small Now it makes you feel fat

She went to law school; I bet it all on brick ov– en pita and lost

Unsatisfied with the miracle of li… Peaceful transfer of power in serv… The peace movement plans to establ… A mostly peaceful monopoly on powe…

When I picked candy apples as my… (think spirit animals for foodies) I honestly had no idea I was naturally sweet but laid it on way too thick

You seem to have caught me in a gr… But it can’t be at all my fault if As you’ll see in the hieroglyph My back is to the cliff Over which the lemmings drift

The crucial ingredient for random mutation to drive evolution is a surplus of time But nothing

When the doyennes of progressive a… “From the river to the sea is an a… human rights, and peaceful coexist… Bernard-Henri Levy helpfully tran… “‘From the river to the sea’, whic…

Whether it’s a brute fact Or a gift from God We are free Is this fair? It depends on

The duel with yourself is whether Your life will be a duel with God Or a duel against others This is the fight of your life And you have two hands

Liberalism is a gift That can only be received from Go… Sourced anywhere else It becomes a debt That can never be repaid

The central paradox of our broken world is known through the feeling of unsurprised disappointment Hope is the belief

The world is a cast of characters Social media is a caste of caricatures