Cease the endless war against the virus
Generals, Winston Churchill said, are always prepared to fight the last war. Their early experiences of…
Podcast #11 – Social progress and social fragmentation
The latest episode of The Burning Archive Podcast is out and available on all the usual platforms, including Apple and Spotify….
Dr Cogito endures Melbourne’s fifth lockdown
And so it seems, the people of Melbourne again must endure this impoverished choice in their lives, as they endure another siege by public health. But such infinite possibility is there in those choices: of attitude, of gesture, of a last word.
The Burning Archive Podcast #10 – The Parallel Polis and the Power of the Powerless
The latest episode of The Burning Archive Podcast is out and available on all the usual…
Report from a besieged city (Melbourne)
Alas three months later, another report from the besieged city of Melbourne – locked down, its…
Writing between the lines
“Persecution cannot prevent even public expression of the heterodox truth, for a man of independent thought…
The post-democratic society is here
The post-democratic society has arrived. We need to turn away from the old priests and performers who are muttering grand concepts of democracy as a prelude to another circus performance in the decaying coliseum. We need to find our own new way in the feral cities of our distressed republics.
A multi-polar world
Originally posted just over three years ago as a reflection on 2017, a difficult year, this…
America’s Coming Century of Humiliation… begins
A tragic sense of history does not limit the depth of the fall of the mighty…
The plague year
One year ago posted the post below on the likely effects of the coronavirus on our…