Memory, turn your face to the moonlight

I think that my post about Moyn and Priestland’s column aged rather well, even if I did underestimate the likelihood of an attempted coup—albeit one under the thinnest cloak of law.

I’m starting to wonder if getting big things horribly, horribly wrong isn’t some kind of prerequisite for publishing an opinion piece in the Times.

ICYMI, read Paul’s take on Moyn’s latest analysis of how best to protect U.S. democracy.