The Spirit Is At Home,

A Good Education Would Be Devoted To Encouraging And Refining The Love Of The Beautiful, But A Pathologically Misguided Moralism Instead Turns Such Longing Into A Sin Against The High Goal Of Making Everyone Feel Good, Of Overcoming Nature In The Name Of Equality. ... Love Of The Beautiful May Be The Last And Finest Sacrifice To Radical Egalitarianism.

Social Science And Humanities ... Have A Mutual Contempt For One Another, The Former Looking Down On The Latter As Unscientific, The Latter Regarding The Former As Philistine. ... The Difference Comes Down To The Fact That Social Science Really Wants To Be Predictive, Meaning That Man Is Predictable, While The Humanities Say That He Is Not.

Openness, As Currently Conceived, Is A Way Of Making Surrender To Whatever Is Most Powerful, Or Worship Of Vulgar Success, Look Principled.

Once The Law Is Broken With Impunity, Each Man Regains The Right To Any Means He Deems Proper Or Necessary In Order To Defend Himself Against The New Tyrant, The One Who Can Break The Law.

Americans ... Do Not Naturally Apply The Term "bourgeois" To Themselves, Or To Anyone Else For That Matter. They Do Like To Call Themselves Middle Class, But That Does Not Carry With It Any Determinate Spiritual Content. ... The Term "middle Class" Does Not Have Any Of The Many Opposites That Bourgeois Has, Such As Aristocrat, Saint, Hero, Or Artist - All Good.