Ruling – Page 20 – Everything

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?

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 162019
 

We are too consumed by who shall rule to notice how.

May 132019
 

The arc of the eligible-voter universe bends toward fecklessness.

May 092019
 

To pretend that everybody rules is the shortest way to get your hands on everybody’s stuff.

May 082019
 

Censorship is the appropriate punishment for writing that the censor understands.