“When a law has a name like ‘Patriot’ or ‘Freedom’, it’s a sign that you should read the fine print”

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When a law has a name like “Patriot” or “Freedom,” it’s a sign that you should read the fine print. Somewhere down there, in the terraced subclauses of some forgettable subsection, is a word with a special meaning, a word that offers shelter and concealment to whatever it is that the law actually does.

Mattathias Schwartz, “Everything Counts”, New York Times Magazine (28 June 2015), 13.

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