Today for Rewind Wednesday, we look at the Espionage and Sedition Acts during World War I, and reflect on how little has changed in the last 100 years.

Democratic states always struggle with competing priorities during war—in part, because our societies are much more conservative than some of us like to think.

War brings the ugliest parts of our social contract to the fore, and leaves deep civic wounds in its wake.

#Humanism #Democracy #War
https://mlclark.substack.com/p/democracy-and-the-wartime-state