Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

- George Scialabba

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.

- George Scialabba

The quality of leaders matters less than the quality of citizens.

- George Scialabba

Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world dr…

- George Scialabba

What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evo…

- George Scialabba

The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powe…

- George Scialabba