Secrecy Is For Losers.

...there Is Simply Nothing So Important To A People And Its Government As How Many Of Them There Are, Whether Their Number Is Growing Or Declining, How They Are Distributed As Between Different Ages, Sexes, And Different Social Classes And Racial And Ethnic Groups, And Again, Which Way These Numbers Are Moving.

The Soviet Union Came Apart Along Ethnic Lines. The Most Important Factor In This Breakup Was The Disinclination Of Slavic Ukraine To Continue Under A Regime Dominated By Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia Came Apart Also, Beginning With A Brutal Clash Between Serbia And Croatia, Here Again 'nations' With Only The Smallest Differences In Genealogy; With, Indeed, Practically A Common Language. Ethnic Conflict Does Not Require Great Differences; Small Will Do.

The Issue Of Race Could Benefit From A Period Of Benign Neglect.

People Who Pierce The Veil Of Money Rarely Return With Their Faculties Altogether Intact.

If The Newspapers Of A Country Are Filled With Good News, The Jails Of That Country Will Be Filled With Good People.