Deconstructing the Deep State

One of my favorite sentences in The Shawshank Redemption — a movie filled with some of Stephen King’s finest writing — comes near the end.  The protagonist, Andy, has broken out of prison and sent a trove of evidence to the press that implicates the crooked warden in multiple criminal conspiracies.  Sitting in his office as police sirens blare and officers beat down his door, the corrupt and abusive warden opts to take his own life.  Morgan Freeman narrates as Andy’s friend and fellow inmate, Re...