Michael Clemens: When the facts are available and their meaning obvious, people who want power over you must eventually demand that you ignore what you see, what you know. "Freedom", wrote Orwell, "is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

When the facts are available and their meaning obvious, people who want power over you must eventually demand that you ignore what you see, what you know. "Freedom", wrote Orwell, "is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."