As these precursors show, the aphoristic form is capable of important strengths: it helps to keep the organizing conceptual terms of an argument constantly in dialectical motion; it allows problems to ...

Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic ideas are widespread, but outdated. There may be profit in treating him less as a scientist ...

That’s nothing new: For decades, Davis has specialized in aphoristic stories that thrive on wordplay, rhythm and irony while avoiding easy sarcasm or dad jokes. Here, for instance, is the full text of ...

We can neither run nor hide. Aphoristic reasoning of the sort Justice Kennedy has produced is owed nothing by the citizens it purports to control. We must offer resistance to a decision so ...

Han’s writing, polemical and aphoristic, spoke to Maret’s experience of growing up on social media, and crystallized for him the lack of control he felt regarding his relationship to the Internet.

These digressions can be aphoristic, and sometimes they extend to become minor essays on how we conceive of the ill and the well. “Psychiatry exists on the premise of internally directed ...

Sometimes as brief as a sentence or several paragraphs, they dispense with conventional narrative and character in favor of astringent wit and aphoristic insight. Davis’s commentary on these two ...

For four decades, Hitchens has tried both. He writes lapidary, aphoristic, and even hilarious essays on questions that he presents as no laughing matter. So which is the real Hitchens? The salon wag ...

And does the receiver want to believe it? Rule of thumb: If what you’re saying is so blatantly obvious that it need no explanation – in an aphoristic way – then don’t explain it.

the feeling that there cannot possibly be anything new to contribute – or that the reflection will come down to some woolly aphoristic conclusion: it was the phones all along, or reality TV ...

Like an off-beat Virgil, she tosses off gems of odd aphoristic wisdom (“Every town has a two-headed something”) and makes poetry more accessible by mixing in a bit of pop culture: “Keats made such a ...