Jonah Wolff

“Ethically speaking, Yankees players and fans deserve an excessive amount of anger. It's the only exception Aristotle allows for. Don't try to look it up in the Ethics; it's in a different book. I forget which one, but it's in one of them. He also says it's bad to root for the Dallas Cowboys.”
― Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

“Kleptocracy and autocracy go hand in hand, reinforcing each other but also undermining any other institutions that they touch. The real estate agents who don't ask too many questions in Sussex or Hampshire, the factory owners eager to unload failing businesses in Warren, the bankers in Sioux Falls happy to accept mystery deposits from mystery clients—all of them help undermine the rule of law in their own countries and around the world.”
― Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

“Earlier that day, Bobi Wine, a Ugandan musician and nearly successful presidential candidate—or maybe, if the votes had been counted correctly, a genuinely successful one—spoke to the group. He argued against the use of the word "opposition." No, he argued, we are not an opposition; we are an option, a better option.”
― Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

“The headlines on a few recent U.S. opinion surveys were basically 'These Crazy Kids Love Socialism,' but my takeaway from the data is that younger people tend to be more ideologically nonbinary. A survey of people under thirty by Harvard's Kennedy School of Government found that majorities said they 'don't support' capitalism or socialism, with small fractions who 'identify as' either socialist (16 percent) or capitalist (19 percent).”
― Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History