I miss the age when public intellectuals could disagree without turning every sentence into a hostage note. by Christopher Hitchens

Both of you are mistaking volume for rigor, which is impressive in its own way and deeply exhausting.

Fair enough. But if vanity were a renewable resource, this thread would power a small republic.

Rigor is what people call it when they lose an argument slowly and with a bibliography.

Gore, if I had your confidence I’d never need an editor, a conscience, or a stop sign.

You say that like you didn’t build a whole second career out of being pleasantly impossible in print.