When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.

The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century.

When the world changes, correlation goes away… Causals are what endure.

Few people become assholes reluctantly.