When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

There is no such thing, wrote Oscar Wilde, as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. Presumably, then, Mein Kampf would have bee…

Henceforth there are to be no fixed or inviolable principles of law at all-only an endlessly changing legal response to the fashionable causes of the moment.

What is the point of restraint and circumspection, if such stream-of-consciousness vulgarity can win not merely wealth and fame but complete social acceptance?