Professing communism never saved a kulak, and professing Nazism never saved a Jew. Only the religious fanatics are that sporting.
Feb 272018
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?
Feb 122018
Pas d’ennemi à gauche eventually begets pas d’ennemi à droite.
Feb 062018
At the beginning you go to the gulag for criticizing Stalin; toward the end for being first, when his name is mentioned, to stop applauding.
Jan 262018
Nazism is worse than Bolshevism, because everybody’s sober.
Jan 222018
A government not of men but of laws — written by men, interpreted by men, and enforced by men.
Dec 182017
The consolation prize for being out of power is unswerving commitment to timeless civic principles.
Nov 292017
Merit is only achievement, and meritocracy only mandarinism.
Nov 162017
There is no freedom to speak without the freedom to be silent.
Nov 152017
Authority depends on prestige, or failing that, police.
Nov 032017
It is rather late to mourn the dignity of office.