17 quotes found
Commentator · American · 1964
American commentator (born 1964)
“Travel like a pro, not like a hobo. That's my motto.”
“My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.”
“Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.”
“There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.”
“2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pavement.”
“As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.”
“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 f...”
“People who use their religion as a framework to kill people, simply , are not nice people. Yes, that's quite a stand I'm making, but the idea that people are systematically executed because they do...”
“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...”
“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.”
“Terror, married to technology and accommodated by progress in travel, has turned evil individuals into traveling ballistic missiles.”
“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.”
“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 comm...”
“The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.”