Eichmann in Jerusalem
Evil does not roar. It files forms, quotes Kant, and joins committees.
Law
Rules with force behind them, and the profession that interprets them.
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Music piracy
Piracy didn’t break the music business—it exposed its original sin: paying composers only when the law forced it.
Campaign advertising
Campaign advertising isn’t about democracy—it’s about control of attention, and the rules governing it are already broken.
Studio system
Hollywood didn’t make movies—it ran factories, signed indentures, and booked films in bundles until the courts broke it up.
Video nasty
‘Video nasty’ wasn’t a genre — it was a prosecutorial checklist dressed as cultural critique.
1990s in Hong Kong
A decade built not around people, but around a deadline: 1 July 1997.
Moral panic
Moral panic isn’t mass hysteria — it’s the machinery that turns anxiety into law.
Pirate radio
Pirate radio isn’t rebellion—it’s the first crack in the myth that airwaves can be owned.
Marketplace of ideas
The marketplace of ideas isn’t neutral infrastructure — it’s a legal fiction that privileges scale over scrutiny.
Paradox of tolerance
Tolerance must defend itself — or vanish.
Tyranny of the majority
Democracy’s greatest threat isn’t autocracy — it’s the majority voting itself unchecked power.
University of Cambridge
Cambridge wasn’t born from enlightenment—it was chartered to keep scholars out of jail and landlords out of their pockets.
Civil rights movement
It rewrote federal law—but not daily life.
Ibn Rushd al-Jadd
He didn’t just interpret law—he weaponised it against Christians who sided with Aragon.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
She didn’t shout for change. She rewrote the rulebook—and then watched it get misquoted as a rallying cry.