Words Worth Noting - September 1, 2026

The late Francois Furet, a French historian of totalitarianism, “copiously illustrates this thesis: that people believe what they want to believe, as long as it is possible to believe it; and that they generally return to believing it, once the crisis has passed. For how else can we explain the dogged loyalty to radical socialism, in the face of repeated butcheries?”

David Warren in Ottawa Citizen May 28, 2000 [the trouble being that if “people” do it and the author is a person presumably he does it too and truth collapses]