This episode of The Burning Archive podcast explores how Havel’s writing, ideas and the model of his way of living in truth remains meaningful to us today. This episode sets out the main events of Havel’s life and the ideas of his political essays. It looks in depth at the “Letter to Gustav Husak” (1975), and its uncanny evocation of aspects of our lives today in a locked down world.
Emily Dickinson, Vaclav Havel, Revolution in Military Affairs, the fall of the Anglo-American Ascendancy, Vale Angelo Codevilla, Boris Pasternak
Michael Oakeshott, Marina Tsvetaeva, Elena Shvarts, Russian Ark, St Petersburg
The fall of Kabul has raised questions for Australia about the reliability of its alliance with the United States of America. Will the fall of Kabul and the rise of Eurasia provoke the same questioning of foreign policy by Australia?
Things are very serious here in Australia. There is a mental health crisis. We have endured a state of emergency since March 2020. Normal rules of government decision making have not applied. We have pursued a medical utopia of COVID Zero at stunning cost. It is really something that should never happen again, and hopefully, at the right time in the right way by the right people, will be deeply investigated and reflected on.
The latest episode of The Burning Archive Podcast is out and available on all the usual platforms, including Apple and Spotify….
Is Eurasia rising after the fall of Kabul? The latest episode of The Burning Archive Podcast…
I am reposting this post from maybe May or June. In Melbourne now all the weeks…
And again, now in September, I repost this act of refusal to submit to despair. *****…
In 1700 Charles II, King of Spain and Emperor presiding over a vast global empire, died…