"Everyone knows this is where history is headed." That sentence has a soothing tone... It’s the drowsy lullaby that nothing we do matters except keeping our heads down and our hands clean. But empires love that sentence. So do strongmen, party bosses, and anyone who...
When you hear someone "making room" for bigotry embedded in state law or church polity, look at who they are. If they are not one of the people oppressed by that policy, but they're making room for it, they are complicit in the oppression, not at all a neutral...
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit, and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to...