The consolation prize for being out of power is unswerving commitment to timeless civic principles.
Dec 182017
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?
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.
Oct 192017
Say what you like about our form of government, it beats democracy.
Oct 162017
Law is keeping order: justice is keeping score.
Oct 122017
To deify the state has a certain logic; for the state is compulsion and coercion, and these, too, are God’s usual means.
Oct 062017
If you separate Church and State, the State becomes the Church.
Sep 252017
Actual tyrannies require courage to oppose.