Comments on: It is important only when we do not have it

By: Wang Wei Lin

Wang Wei Lin — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 05:28:40 +0000

Ahhhh… David French. He’s popping up in more blogs and comment threads as the typical TDS/RINO poster boy midwit. He’s clever, talented and wrong.

By: Chedolf

Chedolf — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:07:46 +0000

“Almost more frustrating than dealing with obvious idiots like David French.”

I think the main problem with David French is that he’s a disguised enemy, not that he’s (just) an idiot.

By: Altitude Zero

Altitude Zero — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:12:55 +0000

As near as I can tell Quigley was kind of a mid-century Scott Alexander. He’s frustrating, because he’s obviously intelligent, and he walks right up to being right, and then turns away, because the truth offends his liberal pieties. Almost more frustrating than dealing with obvious idiots like Howard Zinn and David French.

By: Covfefe Anon

Covfefe Anon — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:58:48 +0000

Almost certainly made up, yes, but for the anecdote to sound cool it has to have a shred of plausibility so people of the time could imagine someone saying that, whereas if he someone told that story today no one would believe it.

By: Contaminated NEET

Contaminated NEET — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:19:53 +0000

“How did people like this ever exist?”

Quigley made up the anecdote to make himself sound cool.

By: Covfefe Anon

Covfefe Anon — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:58:56 +0000

“He answered, ‘I would take the million dollars.’”

How did people like this ever exist?