July 6, 2025

The second law, Rakove’s law of principle and politics, states that the citizen is influenced by principle

Kim Campbell, the first female prime minister of Canada, was right when she said a 47-day-long election campaign (Imagine a campaign of only 47 days!) was not enough time to reconsider the nation’s social programs. But she was wrong to say so.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.