It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.

- Matthew Crawford

We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to prevent the concentrat…

- Matthew Crawford

What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on t…

- Matthew Crawford

Out of the current confusion of ideals and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of …

- Matthew Crawford

The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.

- Matthew Crawford