Fragility Tactic

Sensitivity towards sensitivities is kindness. But the demand for sensitivity is manipulation. It is the leveraging of opinion, and it is thereby profoundly phony. It’s a kind of crocodile tears, but not a pretense of sorrow. Rather, it warning of the bite to come....

Radical Autonomy

“Portland’s attitude toward illicit drugs is part of a larger ethos of radical autonomy—the idea that a person should be allowed to define his or her own reality free from outside influences like the law, moral systems, or community standards. Radical autonomy or...

Employment

“A neighborhood in which people are poor but employed is different from a neighborhood in which people are poor and jobless.” – William Julius Wilson

Individual Moralities

“The Union can stay divided because slavery is an issue everyone can decide for themselves personally and therefore don’t need to argue about.” – Stephen A. Douglas

Government Largesse

“In the first hundred days of his presidency Barack Obama proposed spending $12 billion on community colleges, which, if it had passed Congress, would only have resulted in more states deciding that firemen and state troopers must learn how to put their footnotes in...