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Oblivion or Disclosure, What Naming Informers Can and Cannot Heal
When a regime of secret denunciation falls, should its files be closed or opened? From Domitian's Rome to revolutionary France, the texts suggest that naming informers repairs only when it also judges the system that recruited and paid them.
The Ounce of Prevention and the Pound of Proof, Why Governments Struggle to Spend Now for Savings Later
From cholera-era drainage reports to the debates over pensions and health visitors, reformers argued again and again that prevention pays. They rarely won on the numbers. The savings were invisible, the costs were plain, and success could make the powers behind prevention look less necessary.
