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“National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.”
“In this snug, over-safe corner of the world we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous, untamed...”
“Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
“There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.”
“A cardinal tenet of conservatism is that social inertia is – and ought to be – strong. It discourages and, if necessary, defeats the political grandiosity of those who would attempt to engineer the...”
“In this snug, over-safe corner of the world… we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous, untame...”
