Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood… Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have …
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men, 2005
It’s a new year and a new decade*. Honestly, 2019 has felt like the longest year of my entire life. Everyone says as you get older the years start to fly by, and it’s generally been true for me any other year. I blow my own mind thinking back to events that happened less than …