The warnings of history are there should we wish to heed them. Our liberties have been hard won, and those who attack them now are only able to do because of the privileges they afford. There is no edifice sufficiently robust that it will not eventually yield to sustained pressure. We are right to distrust those who assume their own infallibility and moral superiority over the past, who consider their small pocket of existence to be a kind of Year Zero in the grand narrative of humanity.
