Separation of powers: each bureaucrat gets a tiny bit.
May 202022
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?
May 192022
Deontology for thee, but not for me.
May 032022
The crisis is not that the press is distrusted: the press has always been distrusted. The crisis is that this has finally dawned on the press.
Apr 202022
We complain of government inefficiency and unaccountability, instead of government mass murder, wholesale theft, and miseducation of our children by force, which makes our own supine posture rather too apparent.
Apr 122022
A law is a metric, and like any other metric it can and will be gamed.
Apr 062022
Popular sovereignty in a democracy comes to resemble Swiss cheese, as ambitious men carve little chunks of political power out for themselves and proof them as best they can against the vagaries of elections. Eventually nothing is left but the holes.
Apr 052022
It is unjust to require IDs to vote. What ought to be required is an accurate statement of Arrow’s impossibility theorem.
Mar 312022
One World: No Exit.
Mar 302022
Science is Science, and Policy Policy, and never the twain shall meet.
Mar 232022
The indispensable qualification for revolutionary politics is having nothing better to do.