13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat (II): the three-eyed raven
I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. Wallace Stevens,…
I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. Wallace Stevens,…
Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. (Wallace Stevens,…
“Psychoanalysts don’t usually write essays; they tend to write lectures or papers or chapters, or what…
As the violence and brewing disorder of our times disturbs us, we can readily fall into…
US and western leaders have to find better ways to satisfy their people’s demands. It looks,…
Here is a poem I wrote, prompted by estimates of rising life expectancy across most of…
Here is a poem I wrote a couple of months ago amidst the endless stream of…
Towards the end of Mikhail Gorbachev’s The New Russia (2016), Gorbachev recounts an anecdote told in…
Election nights are rites of reunification. The divisions of a society spew out over weeks, with…
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…