More people than we would wish to believe will enact the most depraved of fantasies, when they can. This reads like a novel by De Sade. (View Post)

Many people will eagerly humiliate themselves, in return for pennies. (View Post)

Such people are unhinged. Unfortunately, they are absurdly influential. (View Post)

As Madame de Merteuille put it, "Like most intellectuals, he is quite stupid." There comes a point where a group of highly qualified people talk only to like-minded people, and come to incr… (View Post)

I think that some human rights lawyers and judges feel a positive glow of virtue, by endangering the public, in the cause of abstract principles. (View Post)