The cunning of reason strikes Thomas Jolly

This will give me occasion to remark that Maurice Joly, he of the Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, often regarded as a foolproof debunking of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, was in fact publicizing a philosophy and strategy that existed long before him, and which later formed the basis of the Protocols. These guys never learn, they always give themselves up.