“…a new fact appears in history—the State as the outcome of
reflection and calculation, the State as a work of art. This new life
displays itself in a hundred forms, both in the republican and in the
despotic States, and determines their inward constitution, no less
than their foreign policy.” – Jacob Burckhardt, Civilization of
the Renaissance in Italy As seen in The Wire, Mediaite, and Prufrock(a
blog by J. Arthur Bloom, tweet me suggestions at @j_arthur_bloom)
