The value of unpaid work is often invisible in economic measures, yet it is the backbone of society.
If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.
The artist is a child of his time, but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
The tyranny of the magistrate is not less formidable than that of the multitude.