Mark Steyn for instance wrote a wonderful book [...] Bat Yeor of cours — Douglas Murray

"We do live in a society in which victimhood is the main goal. To be a victim and to be on the victim hierarchy, to have the delicious opportunity to be the most victimized person is clearly the aspiration. Weve all seen it in our lives when people pick up the microphone in a Q&A and say Speaking as..., and I think Ah, everything that is going to come afterwards is going to be garbage. And then theyll say something about their lived experience, as if there is any other kind of experience. In my unlived experience...?"

"[At] Stanford, it turned out there is roughly one HR person on staff or faculty for every student. It would be cheaper get everyone a butler. And much more useful. And it would make me want to go to Stanford."

"Discussions of minority interests are one way of claiming political virtue."

"[Friedrich Nietzsche] said somebody must stand over the life of the person of resentment and say to them at some point: You are right. You have reason to be resentful. There is somebody who has ruined your life. There is somebody who has held you back. The person is you. Now, that is probably the least pleasant thing to hear and probably one of the hardest things to ever say. How can a politician, should a politician, say to certain people You know, you have screwed up your life, and its been your responsibility and your fault. You can turn it around, but if you dont want to, youll still be the only person to blame."

"I see no reason why every other country in the world should be prevented from feeling pride in itself because the Germans mucked up twice in a century. In Europe, in particular, nationalism after all sounds different depending on the country youre in. Nationalism in Israel sounds different to nationalism in America, sounds different to nationalism in Italy, sounds different to nationalism here in Britain."

"One of the strange habits of our time is the one in which a self-appointed class roams the land, hands cupped to their ear, hoping to discern something they can identify as a ‘dog-whistle’... One oddity of the whole business of trying to hear dog-whistles is very basic: if you can hear the whistle, you must surely be the dog. It is the nature of the analogy that a non-canid cannot hear what the dog hears. So to be able to hear on a whole different aural wave-length to everyone else – to be peculiarly attuned to the tones of the time and to be able to explain to everyone else – is one heck of a power to bestow upon yourself."