“A popular slogan of the Italian Fascists under Mussolini was, ‘Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato’ (everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state). I recall this expression frequently as I observe the state’s far-reaching penetration of my own society. What of any consequence remains beyond the state’s reach in the United States today?” (03/16/10)