Sublime

But Moses no longer had to discuss. He had long had great dreams for the city, and now he had learned how to make dreams come true. He had learned the technique of stake driving and of whipsawing. He had learned how to mislead and conceal and deceive, how to lie to men and bully them, how to ruin their reputations. And he used all these methods to

I found myself asking the same questions over and over: How many decisions—including ones of great historical significance that impact millions of people—are made by men and women who are driven by personal motives rather than by a desire to do the right thing? How many of our top government officials are driven by personal greed instead of

The logic of envy is the logic of a democracy that does not feel connected to power, which is troubling because these democrats theoretically and in reality had all of it. They didn't lose their power; they didn’t want it anymore. This is why rhetoric was developed not merely as an art but as a science, to methodically and reliably target the

The main object of the political jurisdiction which obtains in the United States is, therefore, to deprive the ill-disposed citizen of an authority which he has used amiss, and to prevent him from ever acquiring it again. This is evidently an administrative measure sanctioned by the formalities of a judicial decision.

Whether working from good or bad facts, or good or bad law, students need to show they can use their resources to convincingly support or refute a position.

Leo Bianchi had fucked with him. This was no job. This was an insult. Payback for Albert’s disrespect. Of course, Albert wouldn’t play along, so he sent Roy into the house. Roy was the only choice. Bob and Danny would forever question him if they saw what the job was. Harvey, if he were to find out, would certainly never let Albert forget it.

is hard to believe that because someone happened, in a particular instance, to perform some effective medical treatment, that that individual would then go all over the world telling people how to practice medicine absent any formal training. But precisely that happens all the time in the case of leadership, where unsubstantiated accounts of heroic