Sixty years ago we were repressed, and there were a few things it was dangerous to say. Today we are liberated, and there are a great many.
Jan 092020
Remembering
The obscurest epoch is today.
—Stevenson
Jan 072020
The only class struggle is the bourgeoisie against itself.
Dec 132019
Never before in history has oppression been so subtle.
Dec 032019
Those who think they are the future can’t tell you half as much about it as those who know they are the past.
Nov 292019
Many modern ills trace to the fateful decision to teach stupid people how to read.
Nov 192019
The nostalgia is not for poverty but for the social bonds that poverty demands and cements.
Oct 312019
Journalism is the first draft of history, shortly to reside with all other first drafts.
Oct 152019
The past also judges us, less indulgently than the future will.
Oct 112019
Civilization is always under attack, always crumbling, always burning; it ends when we can no longer repel the invaders, shore up the foundations, and extinguish the flames.
Sep 272019
History is lenient with the vicious and powerful victims of tyrants still more vicious and powerful.