Ruinous Modesty

“Now he could see with his own eyes and hear with his own ears that not only Hitler, not only Heydrich nor the ‘sphinx’ Müller, not just the S.S. or the Party, but the elite of the good old Civil Service were vying and fighting with each other for the honor of taking...

Peaceful Evening In

“Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast. Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round and, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn throws up a steamy column, and the cups that cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, so let us welcome peaceful evening in.”...

DOGE

“Mr. Musk’s chaos would be the worst possible solution to this spending chaos if not for the fact that more-orderly reforms are all but out of reach, thanks the iron law of concentrated benefits and diffused costs. There ought to be a better way, you keep thinking....