Prawfs Blawg, November 20, 2009 by Jonathan Simon
http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2009/11/hope-v-fear.html
Could there be any better index of the relative strength of hope and fear in a polity than spending on universities and prisons? For the American “states,” who have no armies, universities and prisons are the most concentrated and material manifestations of state sovereignty itself.