To destroy a man’s property is to nullify that part of his life devoted to its creation or acquisition. It is to kill him, insensibly and by degrees.
Mar 222021
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?
Mar 122021
The difference between English and American governance is that everyone knows the Queen is a figurehead.
Feb 252021
I would far rather be ruled by the football team than the computer club, let alone the debate team, student government, or model U.N.
Feb 232021
The only difference between utopia and dystopia is that utopia is nowhere and dystopia is everywhere.
Feb 192021
Today’s politics has no Lenins, and few Stalins, but oh so many Kerenskys.
Feb 152021
There is always official doctrine, but it is unusual for the officials to be stupid enough to believe it.
Feb 052021
There is no institution, save the state itself, that guards free expression, and all such self-appointed guardians inevitably become enforcers of orthodoxy.
Jan 282021
Fascism has often been popular. Communism has never been popular.
Jan 262021
The more plausible the heresy, the more rigorously it must be suppressed.
Jan 212021
To fend for oneself in a high civilization demands a certain cognitive minimum; when too many lack it the civilization lowers itself to meet them, and the process is hastened by letting them vote.