'In its original form, the blog, or web log, was more a reader’s medium than a writer’s medium.'

'Colleague… was inactive…'

'The strain of all-American humbug baked into television anchoring from the start…'

'… there's no company whatsoever in that feeling.'

'What effect has philosophy today exerted on philosophers?—They live just like all other scholars, even like politicians. They are not distinguished by any set of customs. They live for money. The five thinkers of the Augsburger Allgemeine. Just look at the lives of their highest specimens, Kant and Schopenhauer—are those the lives of wise men? It remains scholarship: they relate to their work as do performers, hence in Schopenhauer's case the desire for success. It is comfortable to be a philosopher: for no one makes demands of them. The first night of Diogenes. Socrates would demand that one bring philosophy back down to the level of human beings; either there is no popular philosophy, or only a very bad popular philosophy. What noticeable effect has philosophy had among the disciples of the philosophers, I mean educated peoples? We lack the best matter for conversation, a more refined ethics. Rameau's Nephew.'

Taskers

Sympathetic everymen

'… writing requires maximum ambition, maximum audacity, and programmatic disobedience.'

'… Fish has stayed true to their core belief in the value of academic professionalism: the value, that is, of refusing to justify the value of what you do.'