Thursday
Everyone is reactionary about subjects he understands.
- Robert Conquest, quoted in the Guardian, and then quoted again in The Week

That's a riff on Mr. Conquest's own "Three Laws of Politics", formulated some years ago:
1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
2. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
3. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
Posted by Dodd at February 28, 2003 06:44 PM
Anyone intrigued enough by this quotation, should immediately read Conquest's year-old book "Reflections on a Ravaged Century." Just to cite the best remarks he makes would take a hundred pages. You will be delighted.
Posted by Thomas at February 28, 2003 09:46 PM









