a political disease. History warns us that extremes of partisanship are the antechamber to tyranny. Just think of the late Roman republic, the demise of the popular commune in medieval Italy, the career of Savonarola in Renaissance Florence, the “Protectorate” of Oliver ...
ours rules by coercion, not consent. It exerts its power primarily by constraining allowable, expressible opinion: it knows that the thing which cannot be said eventually becomes that which cannot be thought. And the chief thoughts it wishes to suppress...