He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would venture to write a book about democracy without ever having read de Tocqueville, nor embark on a translation of Nietzsche with only a sketchy knowledge of German.
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable an… - John Derbyshire
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable an…
- John Derbyshire
He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would ven… - John Derbyshire
He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would ven…
Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, r… - John Derbyshire
Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, r…
Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day! - John Derbyshire
Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!
Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as wa… - John Derbyshire
Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as wa…
The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias - John Derbyshire
The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias
Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant. - John Derbyshire
Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.
Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always. - John Derbyshire
Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.
I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal p… - John Derbyshire
I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal p…
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