On Freedom

Hannah Arendt meant by totalitarianism was not an all-powerful state, but the erasure of the difference between private and public life. We are free only insofar as we exercise control over what people know about us, and in what circumstances they come to know it. During the campaign of 2016, Americans

In this way the notion of extremism comes to mean virtually everything except what is, in fact, extreme: tyranny.

Any election can be the last, or at least the last in the lifetime of the person casting the vote.