Authority depends on prestige, or failing that, police.
Nov 152017
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 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.
Sep 162017
If policy simply achieved its ends, a new outlet would have to be found for the ingenuity expended in its defense.
Sep 122017
What politicians say about science is as silly as what scientists say about politics.
Aug 232017
Every vote is for the lesser evil.