There is a famous quote, often attributed to Mark Twain (although it is doubtful that he ever said this). It reads, “History never repeats itself, but it does rhyme.” Well, here’s a familiar verse: The conservative leader of a Western industrialized nation is using a recent tragedy to justify the increased surveillance of its citizens.…


A Humble Crisis Management Strategy for the Morally Grotesque Prime Minister David Cameron
Well, the big ol’ world leader David Cameron got caught doing something bad. But more accurately, he got caught doing something so unspeakably transgressive it’d make Bret Easton Ellis put his pen down and go for a nice walk in a nice park in a nice autumnal sweater. He got so caught that people who…