Once memory has been centralized it can be destroyed.
Sep 102018
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?
Aug 302018
When you hear a proposed law or policy described as “common sense,” run for your life. Common sense doesn’t scale.
Aug 282018
If you must be the victim of a grotesque law or policy, be first, or photogenic, and it may pay you back in fame. The rest go unnoticed.
Aug 172018
The law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, and this, precisely, is the source of its majesty.
Aug 162018
Secret police at all times and places have been delighted by the size and enthusiasm of their volunteer auxiliaries.
Jul 302018
So the last shall be told that they are first, and the first that they are last: for many be hectored, but few persuaded.
Jul 052018
We are exhorted to ask cui bono?, yet cui malo? is often the more penetrating question.
Jun 292018
A government of laws, not of men, requires suitable men.
Jun 142018
To the problem of different opinions political science offers two solutions, idealism and realism. Idealism: different opinions should not exist. Realism: different opinions do not exist.
Jun 062018
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
DIVERSITY BRINGS US TOGETHER