July 20, 2025

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy.

Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899–1977), American academic, Great Books (1954), Jay p.186

How many of your colleagues have been victims of voter apathy—defeated for re-election because their challenger ran a better campaign? If so, did they see it coming? What are your prospects next time around?

As the French philosopher Étienne Gilson said of the death of scholasticism, it was an inside job! *the system of theology and philosophy taught in the medieval European universities