Security v Liberty

27 February 2009 By Dan Kuper 1

From Slavoj Zizek's The Plague of Fantasies, preface to the new editionIn the last years of the Communist regime in Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu was asked by a foreign journalist how he justified the constraints on foreign travel imposed on Romanian citizens. Was this not a violation of their human rights? Ceausescu answered that these constraints existed to protect an even higher and more