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		<title>Drunk on Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The confusion of order and measure of crimes is dangerous: Murthers, Traitors and Tyrants, have much gaine by it….As Socrates said, that the chiefest office of wisdome was to distinguish goods and evils. [Essayes, Vol. III, 20.] &#160; In making the above remark, Montaigne was thinking of the evil of drink; today, a more serious [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=153&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judging Others</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is hard to say how the ancients judged each other, but quick judgment of our fellows is surely a contemporary American weakness. Those who quickly place others in simplistic categories, never hence to remove them regardless of whatever new evidence may be found, should do something that no doubt few do anymore: read Montaigne. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=150&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Initial Conditions &#8211; Testing the Concept of Dictatorship Via Purges</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complexity theory is a way of viewing the big picture of a complicated, interdependent process, and most interesting human historical, social, and political processes qualify as examples. At the core of complexity theory lies the insight that such processes are not simply “complicated,” i.e., made up of lots of parts, but “complex,” i.e., made up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=146&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Politicians Who Can&#8217;t Speak the Language of Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to Sakharov&#8217;s first major official effort to caution the Kremlin about the dangers of the monstrous bombs he was responsible for inventing before he gained sufficient moral stature to become a dissident, Khrushchev responded with the following public humiliation (words that only a few years earlier would have been a death sentence): Leave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=144&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hypotheses Based on Prejudice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We believe that it is necessary to know as much as possible about the behavior of the individual and about the simplest forms of exchange….Economists frequently point to much larger, more “burning” questions, and brush everything aside which prevents them from making statements about these. The experience of more advanced sciences, for example physics, indicates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=142&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elite Arrogance &amp; Chaos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of the desperate effort of French workers to grab justice from the self-satisfied elite, Alexis de Tocqueville described what, in current language, might be called &#8220;extremists provoking extremism,&#8221; a not unfamiliar tragedy: &#8220;Nous perissions, si nous n&#8217;eussions ete si pres de perir.&#8221; Si la revolte avait eu un caracgtere moins radical et un aspect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=139&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Middle Class Governance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[De Tocqueville, speaking about the French regime of which he was a member in the 1840s, a regime nearly oblivious of its imminent collapse at the start of the Revolution of 1848: L&#8217;esprit particulier de la classe moyenne devint l&#8217;esprit general du gouernement; il domina la politique exterieure aussi b ien que les affaires du [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=136&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bureaucratic Flavors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bureaucratic behavior comes in many flavors – it’s hard to predict until the fine lens of crisis is applied. Then, one discovers what sort of government one has. Speaking of the bureaucratic response to a non-political plague, Albert Camus had this to say about the flavors of bureaucratic behavior: Mais ils [the bureaucrats] lui [the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=134&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing but &#8220;Bureaucratized Anarchy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While everyone gets excited about the crisis of the day &#8211; perhaps a colonial war of liberation or a terrorist threat, the real threat to the democratic society of the homeland comes from within. The near collapse of French democracy in the 1950s as a result of the cleavages within French society between those insisting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=126&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Honey-Mouthed Politicians</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Li Linfu, powerful chancellor of Tang dynasty China from 734 to 752, was renown for his devious ways and honeyed voice, evidently an early master of political correctness. Employing his skills to personal advantage, he ruled by backstabbing all potential competitors (which naturally included all patriotic officials intent upon serving their country) while his emperor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=116&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fallacy of Defending Democracy With Repression: Algeria</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing about the French terror campaign to defeat the terror campaign of the Algerian independence forces (the 20th century one that almost destroyed the struggling French state), Albert Camus made a last-ditched effort to persuade his two homelands—France and Algeria—to overcome their clash of civilizations. In the event, of course, France would not compromise* but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=113&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Silence Is Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it is unfortunately true that sometimes the barbarian hordes really do come charging down without warning from the hill on the horizon, it is nevertheless far more likely that dire threat to “our way of life” will instead saunter smiling straight through the front door. For liberty, silence is death. In our happy, blind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=111&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remember!</title>
		<link>http://wmills.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/remember/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning his own history is the free man&#8217;s first defense against government abuse of power. If you choose not to remember the past, you place yourself at the mercy of those who wish to distort the past to manipulate you.  That&#8217;s Solzhenitsyn&#8217;s first lesson in his brilliant chapter tracing the history of the rise of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=104&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sincerity As the Basis for Long-Term National Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservatives and liberals can probably agree that national power is nice to have; the argument is over how to get it and what to do with it. It is a very old argument. Sima Guang&#8217;s assessment of legalist prime minister Shang Yang&#8217;s policy of centralization and strict enforcement of laws designed to use the population [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=98&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reward Honesty&#8230;or Corruption?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several chapters of de Mailla&#8217;s 18th century translation of Zhu Xi&#8217;s summary of Sima Guang&#8217;s classic 11th century history of China are now on line. One nice little story follows. If anyone knows how to access an online full-text version of the classical Chinese original, please let me know! Le gouverneur de Tfi-me, homme irreprochable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=96&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>They Did Not Lie</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To understand the moral foundations of a good democracy, a decade in jail can be an education&#8230; Solzhenitsyn’s account of his return to civilian life from his “tenner” in the Gulag, given in the story “Matryona’s House,” contains a detailed account of how Matryona and he cohabited with mice and cockroaches, an apparent aside that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=93&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Command</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those in command can think top-down or bottom-up, with fundamental implications for the success and morality of policy. Those in command can, at least in theory, think either top-down or bottom-up – they can start from broad concepts or from the actual circumstances of individuals. Either approach, depending on the situation, can be appropriate. Either [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=89&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Constructing Dictatorship</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you view the legal process that occurs when a new reformist or revolutionary or counterrevolutionary regime takes power as engaging in a process of building up a new structure or sliding down a slippery slope, whatever the case, the process is critical, and, as a process, the early steps are most critical. Almost anyone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=87&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Victory for the Regime = Defeat for Society?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does society benefit more from victory or defeat? If the latter, how do we resolve the contradiction between society&#8217;s interest and that of regimes, which live off victories? Простая истина, но и еЈ надо выстрадать: благословенны не победы в войнах, а поражения в них! Победы нужны правительствам, поражения нужны &#8212; народу. После побед хочется еще [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=84&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have Confidence in Your Leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never make the assumption that those in power are there because they have some particular qualification for the position. The fatal incompetence of revolutionary regimes during the prolonged musical chairs game of government in 1848 is a case in point: Dans la matinee, vers dix heures, on nous apprit coup sur coup que Paris etait [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wmills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=702922&amp;post=81&amp;subd=wmills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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