Stalin

Things must be pretty bad in Russia these days. Deceased Soviet dictator Josef Stalin is making a comeback in a Russian city as a way to battle the world economic crisis.If he could beat Nazi Germany, the thinking goes, then his methods should be used on the global economy.Russian communists have...

In Christopher Buckley's Thank You for Smoking, the main character, Nick Naylor, is a tobacco lobbyist. As his job pushes him to ever deeper levels of moral depravity, he repeatedly states, half-ironically, that he claims the Nuremberg defense: at the end of the day, he is "only following orders."...