Behind every man who believes human nature can be remade at will stands a volunteer for the job.
Mar 312021
Ruling
In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?
Mar 292021
It is strange, the way people will believe bizarre and byzantine theories about their rulers after years of being lied to by them continuously.
Mar 232021
Every voter-registration campaign produces a less competent electorate; indeed, that is its aim.
Mar 222021
To destroy a man’s property is to nullify that part of his life devoted to its creation or acquisition. It is to kill him, insensibly and by degrees.
Mar 122021
The difference between English and American governance is that everyone knows the Queen is a figurehead.
Feb 252021
I would far rather be ruled by the football team than the computer club, let alone the debate team, student government, or model U.N.
Feb 232021
The only difference between utopia and dystopia is that utopia is nowhere and dystopia is everywhere.
Feb 192021
Today’s politics has no Lenins, and few Stalins, but oh so many Kerenskys.
Feb 152021
There is always official doctrine, but it is unusual for the officials to be stupid enough to believe it.
Feb 052021
There is no institution, save the state itself, that guards free expression, and all such self-appointed guardians inevitably become enforcers of orthodoxy.