Merciful regimes kill the troublesome without insisting on reeducating them first.
Sep 162019
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?
Sep 102019
The proper end of politics is not to make life pleasant for yourself, your friends, and your allies, but to make it miserable for those whom you hate, envy, and fear.
Sep 062019
The best places don’t let people in, and the worst don’t let them out.
Sep 042019
Never confess at the show trial. They shoot you anyway, then kill your wife and children.
Aug 262019
Power operates like other scarce goods, and black markets spring up in it where it is proscribed.
Aug 142019
“No friends to the right” is the bedrock principle on which left and right agree.
Jul 222019
It doesn’t matter what the rules are. What matters is that no one know what the rules are.
Jul 182019
Permissiveness is more regressive than any sales tax.
Jul 122019
The more obvious the truth, the more severely its utterance is punished.
Jul 112019
How to smash the oppressors while preserving the sponsors has yet to be demonstrated.