Everyone knows how hard it can be to market to millennials.

- Alex Pareene

What really destroyed Tucker Carlson, respected magazine journalist, was TV. TV exposed him as glib, smug, and not nearly as clever as he thought he was.

- Alex Pareene

In our system of government, an opposition party doesn't have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up.

- Alex Pareene

In case you're unfamiliar with TED, it is a series of short lectures on a variety of subjects that stream on the Internet for free.

- Alex Pareene

I'm not great on television. That's one reason I don't do it very often.

- Alex Pareene

I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.

- Alex Pareene

I love insults, devastating takedowns, things that could be described by Twitter hacks as 'shots fired,' and funny ad hominem attacks.

- Alex Pareene

I guess if you want me to stop writing horrible, mean takedowns of everyone, give me a really, really cushy columnist gig.

- Alex Pareene

I grew up in a politically aware household: very civically-minded, good Minnesota liberals.

- Alex Pareene

I don't want to be totally repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life. I don't want to do that at all.

- Alex Pareene

Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It causes delays.

- Alex Pareene

Vaccines don't cause autism. Vaccines, instead, prevent disease. Vaccines have wiped out a score of formerly deadly childhood diseases. Vaccine skepticism has helped to bring some of those diseases back from near extinction.

- Alex Pareene

Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.

- Alex Pareene

Co-opting the conservative line on anti-poverty programs did nothing to halt conservative attacks on anti-poverty programs.

- Alex Pareene

Apocalyptic hysteria is much more effective at getting people to open their wallets than reasonable commentary.

- Alex Pareene

Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He's a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn't as smart as he thinks he is.

- Alex Pareene

The late Christopher Hitchens had the professional contrarian's fixation on attacking sacred cows, and rather soon after his cancer diagnosis, he became one himself.

- Alex Pareene

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.

- Alex Pareene

The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.

- Alex Pareene

An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage.

- Alex Pareene