Lament
Here is a poem I wrote a couple of months ago amidst the endless stream of…
Poem: No Markers
Here is another poem, belonging in my Dr Cogito series, if without any direct naming of…
Ragnarök
A.S.Byatt has written a short and puzzling book, Ragnarök: the end of the gods (2011, public…
Perestroika
Towards the end of Mikhail Gorbachev’s The New Russia (2016), Gorbachev recounts an anecdote told in…
Dr Cogito’s Fall
Here is another in the series of poems featuring Dr Cogito that I have been writing….
Democracy’s discontents
Election nights are rites of reunification. The divisions of a society spew out over weeks, with…
Predicting Donald Trump
This is the post I wrote on 22 July this year: https://theburningarchive.com/2016/07/22/donald-trump-and-americas-wounded-pride/ Just as one should…
Blessed rage for order
This morning I read through two more chapters of Andrew Scull’s Madness in Civilization, which broadly…
Inspirations on being
Yesterday I listened to the On Being podcast, which is surely one of the jewels of…
The Chinese Ancients
I have had a dry spell the last few days, and so have dug into my…