The idea that John Locke founded racism rather than laid the philosophical groundwork against it is among the most astoundingly illiterate ideas I’ve ever seen expressed on Twitter.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/984813260644978689 …
"Many men have a strong impulse to masturbate when they are about to start on a piece of writing." -- Norman Podhoretz, "Making It" (he goes on to talk about St. Augustine's view of the penis.