Books that are buried need not be burned.
Sep 292021
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?
Sep 212021
No political ideology, according to its advocates, has ever really been tried.
Sep 202021
One should fear, not the man who insists he is in charge, but the man who insists that he is not.
Sep 172021
We punish speech because we have yet to devise an effective way to punish thought.
Sep 142021
The logic of stealing an election demands the vigorous suppression of claims that it was stolen.
Sep 072021
The world has always fought over ideas, whose truth is at best a minor strategic advantage.
Aug 272021
Might doesn’t make right, just the rules.
Aug 232021
The future will have no laws, only terms of service.
Aug 112021
Rome’s interests, to Caesar, are indistinguishable from his own.
Aug 022021
If you want power, fame is a liability.