Christopher Hitchens was a wonderful polemicist—first rate—and as good as Nietzsche but without the madness born of syphilis.
Be you! Just do it! But not at my expense or with my coerced blessing. To require those is to pursue tyranny and injustice.
As we are seeing unfold in real time — and as we have seen long before now — progressive dreams put into action are black, brown, and middle-class nightmares. (Part two of a series.)
Our reason is what puts us at the top of the food chain. We are born into this world weak, naked and vulnerable, but reason gives us a tool to exert our mastery over nature.
