Every license is to steal.
Jul 102019
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?
Jul 022019
The fundamental freedom is of association: from it all others can be derived, without it all others are moot.
Jun 262019
A bureaucracy, like a garage, should be hosed down periodically, to dislodge the stray bits of power accumulating in its crevices and corners like dust and dirt.
Jun 192019
Popular sovereignty democratizes everything but rule.
Jun 132019
Populism is mostly the desire for better elites.
Jun 112019
No government censors so rigorously as a mob.
Jun 062019
An ounce of exit is worth a pound of voice.
Jun 052019
The great political divide is not between left and right, populist and elitist, or authoritarian and libertarian. It is between people who are consumed by politics and people who are sane.
May 302019
Late capitalism is a myth: late democracy is real.
May 162019
We are too consumed by who shall rule to notice how.