“Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Do not fall for it.”
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
10 April 2013
Michael Hudson on the Thatcher Legacy
I have avoided the subject, but I thought Mike Hudson's review of Thatcher's economic impact to be interesting.