Asleep Assessments

“When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good; a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all...

Faith

Faith is what you believe. But if you believe something, it drives your actions. If your actions are different from what you say you believe, this is either due to weakness, or you are you deceiving yourself altogether about what you believe. – E.O.

Police-free Utopia

“Quietly, almost exactly three years after the neighborhood was first taken over and renamed CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone), the ice cream shop owner Molly Moon Neitzel filed a lawsuit against the city. She wanted to be really clear that she still supports the...

Family vs. Centralization

“The family is inherently an obstacle to schemes from central control of social processes. Therefore the anointed necessarily find themselves repeatedly on a collision course with the family. It is not a matter of any subjective animus on their part against families....

Socialism

“Socialists think of society as a giant, sticky wad. And no part of that gum ball—no intimate detail of your private life—can be pulled free from the purview of socialism. Socialism is inherently totalitarian in philosophy.” – P.J.O’Rourke

Emasculation

“When masculinity itself is portrayed as a problem, the implication is that the solution is emasculation.” – Nancy Pearcey