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	<title>Historical &#38; Literary Lessons</title>
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	<description>Political lessons from histories and historical fiction.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Trusting Lackeys</title>
		<link>http://wmills.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/trusting-lackeys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Mills</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At one point during Julius Caesar&#8217;s Gallic campaign, when the Aeduan tribe was allied with Rome, the question of whether or not to break the alliance and join Vercingetorix&#8217;s &#8220;rebellion&#8221;&#8211;what today might be called Gaul&#8217;s &#8220;national liberation movement.&#8221; The Aeduan leader had recently been confirmed in his position through the personal intervention of Caesar, who had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace, Freedom&#8230;&#38; Responsibility</title>
		<link>http://wmills.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/peace-freedom-responsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Mills</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Down to the destruction of Carthage, the people and Senate shared the government peaceably and with due restraint, and the citizens did not compete for glory or power; fear of its enemies preserved the good morals of the state. But when the people were relieved of this fear, the favourite vices of prosperity – licence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy and the Freedom to Criticize</title>
		<link>http://wmills.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/democracy-and-the-freedom-to-criticize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Mills</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sima Qian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three millennia ago the ancient dynasty ruling the then-emerging Chinese state had a bulletin board – not for the regime to post notices to the people but for the people to post criticism of the regime! Time passed, governance declined, and by the fall of the Ch’in dictatorship, this wonderfully modern democratic practice had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slippery Slope: Government Undermining of Civil Liberties</title>
		<link>http://wmills.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/slippery-slope-government-undermining-of-civil-liberties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Mills</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Clematius, an utterly innocent man, was put to death without being allowed to open his mouth or speak.
After this act of wickedness, which, now that cruelty had been given free rein, aroused fears that it would be repeated in other cases, a number of people were found guilty and condemned through mere misty suspicion. Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Controls Armed Force?</title>
		<link>http://wmills.wordpress.com/2007/05/07/who-controls-armed-force/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 15:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Mills</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Augustus obtained an important privilege, which rendered him master of Rome and Italy.  By a dangerous exception to the ancient maxims, he was authorised to preserve his military command, supported by a numerous body of guards, even in time of peace, and in the heart of the capital.  His command, indeed, was confined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Studying the Past</title>
		<link>http://wmills.wordpress.com/2007/05/04/studying-the-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 01:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Mills</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;On desapprend de certaines choses, et l&#8217;on fait bien, pourvu qu&#8217;en desapprenant ceci, on apprenne cela.  Pas de vide dans le coeur humain.  De certaines demolitions se font, et il est bon qu&#8217;elles se fassent, mais a la condition d&#8217;etre suivies de reconstructions.
En attendant, etudions les choses qui ne sont plus.  Il est necessaire de [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Temptation</title>
		<link>http://wmills.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/temptation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Mills</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
che la diritta via era smarrita.&#8221;
["When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray."]&#8211;Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Tr. Allen Mandelbaum (Toronto: Bantam Books, 1980)
Dante may have been thinking of individuals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy, Freedom, &#38; Responsibility</title>
		<link>http://wmills.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/democracy-freedom-responsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Mills</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Dostoyevsky]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Solzhenitsyn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On June 8,. 1978, heroic anti-Soviet intellectual Alexander Solzhenitsyn gave an address at Harvard that bears consideration on numerous grounds. The two paragraphs below offer some  remarks on Western freedom, addressing, first, the media, and, second, the population as a whole:
“The press too, of course, enjoys the widest freedom. (I shall be using the word press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rash Judgments a la Dostoyevsky</title>
		<link>http://wmills.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/rash-judgments-a-la-dostoyevsky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Mills</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of anyone. For no one can judge a criminal, until he recognizes that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime. When he understands that, he will be able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership</title>
		<link>http://wmills.wordpress.com/2007/02/17/leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Mills</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Commenting on the Tsarist military leadership in August 1914, Solzhenitsyn in August 1914, p. 508 (Glenny translation, previously cited) and p. 467 (Avgust chetyrnadstatogo (Paris: YMCA Press, 1971.) noted, "And before [general] Nechvolodov had summed them up, they had summed him up--as an alien and dangerous presence ]]></description>
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