Swanson -- Governments Love Secrecy, But the World’s Major Problems Are Not Secret
Governments Love Secrecy, But the World’s Major Problems Are Not Secret Leave a Comment / May 17, 2026 I’ve been reading Truth and Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe, Civil Resistance, and Hope . It’s a collections of things Daniel Ellsberg wrote and didn’t publish. I come to it having read what he did publish, having spoken with him about some of it, having debated him — publicly and privately — on some of it, and generally and extremely admiring what he had to offer and wishing the whole world would catch up to him. But, apart from some aspects of his personal story and other details here and there, it’s familiar stuff that I agreed with and still agree with. It’s mostly timeless, if not ahead of its time, apart from things Ellsberg didn’t have the benefit of when he was writing, such as the full debunking of the Milgram experiments. But reading a great writer can get you thinking, even if it’s along a line of thought you were already on, and even if it’s along...
