Under Egalitarianism . — To praise as superior is still permissible, and even commended, so long as it is clearly untrue.

He who seeks to cast off what he feels to be the burdens of history and inheritance may well succeed in achieving the levity of an idiot. ...

If the fact/value dichotomy were a fact, it would have no value.

The cosmopolitan belief in world-peace and universal brotherhood would have remained a poky little European affliction had it not been for ...

Wallow-Drunk . — “I think ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ are either zombie or capture algorithms when not tied narrowly to a system’s persistence opti...

So Little a Thing . — Latter-day men are loath, in many subtle ways, to acknowledge truth. [1] Take the little matter of bowing. Formerly ...

The Rule of Gearwork . — No art or skill can ever be fulfilled to the utmost merely by the following of rules and mechanical procedures. An...

Specify, or Be Damned . — Individualism does not specify itself to be in keeping with any particular society, or even with the existence of...

A Dear Gift . — If upon men is stamped the understanding that the speaking of truth will bring them harm, either first of all through scold...

A Reactionary’s Affliction . — “Anguish over the decline of civilization is the affliction of a reactionary. The democrat cannot lament the...

Nunc in Quidnuncitate . — “It is true there is in such a population, of itself, no help at all towards reconstruction of the wreck of your...

The Liberal Mockery of Rights and Duties . — The odd thing about liberals is that they believe they are being magnanimous and not absurd or...

Plague-Sight . — If deadly germs were capable of conscious retrospection, they would be able to look back upon the advance of their own kin...

Forfeit . — “A genuine social organism can no longer be linked up with this ageing Europe; such has been forfeit since 1789.” [“Einen w...

Great Littleness . — There is no growth of culture without rest and settlement, and every culture worthy of the name begins in the little f...

Something in Return . — It is a happy requital for those who play their part in scoffing at the idea of human importance that they can feel...

A Vibrant Corpse . — No aim strikes the latter-day European as more sinister, or is likely to fill him with more loathing, than that of the...

Safeguard . — “The heredity of the throne is the guarantee of all heredity and the safeguard of all inheritances.” [1] What hereditary lor...

A Self-Stuffing Animal . — “Fortune spoils, coddles, lulls, and isolates men, and peoples too; whereas misfortune keeps them awake, stirs, ...

Other Powers. — “Of the various powers and faculties we possess, there are some which nature seems both to have planted and reared, so as t...

Radical Conservative Reaction. — All conservatism worthy of the name is radical. It is little but a name for something petty if it does not...

A New Fetish. — “Then all of a sudden . . . a number of impious creatures arrived on the scene, uttering the rankest blasphemies; these we...