For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of 'zero tolerance' and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

The notion that there might be any need for, or possibility of, profound changes in the institutions that shape American life work, family, technology, the pri…

The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain …

A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket value…

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Goyim kill goyim and the Jews are blamed.

First silence. Then denial. Then support of the insupportable. Then vilification of the dissenters. The pattern is as old as time.