“We’re cynical because politicians spend so much time promising us change when we know there’s nothing new under the sun. Things have always been the way they are now; and they always will be. History makes no permanent progress and suffers no permanent regress. Hegel and Fukuyama and Marx and Bush are all wrong. Freedom is not on the march any more now than it ever has been. Neither capitalism nor communism nor democracy nor tyranny is anything new, none of them is dead, and none of them is the future. And government is not now, nor has it ever been, the answer to any question other than, ‘What’s the best tool for destroying things?’” (10/16/08)