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June 5, 2015

The Washington Post published a wonderful “>piece is a thoughtful warning about the continued need to be a careful, thoughtful reader of the news, of commentary and of politicians’ “analyses”—-very few things are simple, very few countries have figured out the right balance of freedom and control that still bedevils us after 239 years, and if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

*With apologies to Stanley Kubrick.

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