June 14, 2010 @ 3:30 pm
Apropos Jacob Huebert’s excellent post a few days ago on the time Before We Worshipped Presidents, our lesser rulers are getting increasingly used to their special, above-the-law status as well. Watch how Democratic Congressman Bob Etheridge responds to being peacefully asked a simple question by a well-dressed student on a public street: Congressman Etheridge thinks [...]
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November 13, 2007 @ 10:56 am
I was just watching Crimson Tide on tv and there was a mention of the famous dictum by the Prussian general, military historian, and theorist Carl von Clausewitz: “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” There is a profound truth in that dictum. It identifies shared characteristics of statist politics and war: anti-social [...]
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