Poem: An Aubade
I have begun a new poetry collection that explores my experiences in this locked down year…
How democracies really die
I found on my bookshelf by chance yesterday the 2018 jeremiad by two Harvard University professors…
Reflections on 2019 – the democratic rebuff to progressivism
Democracy is a mesmerising word. The power of the idea overwhelms definition and precise thinking. The…
My descriptions of the Northern Peoples – travel in Stockholm and Uppsala
I am returning today to my notes on my travels, and piecing together the literary and…
My wordpress 11th anniversary retrospective: 3 dilemmas of government
I am continuing my blogging retrospective today by reposting a small think-piece from The Happy Pessimist…
Oakeshott and the infinite conversation
Michael Oakeshott, the conservative philosopher, has appeared once or twice before in the Burning Archive, mostly…
What I am reading… on governing and imagination
amzn.asia/0CNwQ94 from John Dunn, Breaking Democracy’s Spell
What I am reading… Karl Gützlaff, missionary, drug dealer
From Platt, Imperial Twilight, comes the story of Karl Gützlaff who was a German Lutheran missionary…
Kafka’s writing on the borderlands of dream and thought
Over at Open Culture, there is a fascinating post on a recent medical study linking the…