In the old days feminists would mock women who depended so much on a man. Today if the man is the government, not so much. A man who opens the door for you is a Neanderthal; a bureaucrat who pays for your pills? A hero.
People ask me what I am politically and I’ve previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.
The real American ideal of cool which is building businesses, protecting freedom at home and abroad, taking responsibility for your actions, and leaving other people alone to live as they damn well please.
The only candidate I’d allow to play my music would be Bigfoot, and unless we’re talking about foraging for squirrels, he’s notoriously apolitical.
What a contrast, Trump is feisty but flexible. Obama, cool but rigid. But he had no reason to bend. The media already bought into his shtick. His giddy fan base ate up every white-coated lie.
Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It’s the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction.
My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.
Travel like a pro, not like a hobo. That’s my motto.
Terror, married to technology and accommodated by progress in travel, has turned evil individuals into traveling ballistic missiles.
Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.
There’s a difference between being politically incorrect and boorish. And we’ve seen that line crossed a dozen times by smart people who’ve mistaken politics for punditry.
2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall – and slumped limply on the pavement.
True, the country is divided, but it’s not Right and Left. It’s Left and Not Left. It is because, for liberals, politics is personal and therefore extremely loud. For the rest of us, we prefer community over calamity.
As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.
There’s always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.
The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.