Public Health Rulez, OK?
The psychology of power is enigmatic and poisonous, and it infects more than just the ruthless…
Poem: Lockdown
Lockdown If you can tell lies, you must stay home.If you can live your life, you…
Thucydides’ Tower
Thucydides, one of the rival brothers who founded the Western tradition of history, who lived in…
Poem: Quarantine
Here is a poem I have composed today about what we are all going through. Take…
Plague Notes
The stay-at-home urging continues, and we are all doing the responsible thing. Some order appears to…
The great seclusion
Michel Foucault’s history of madness describes the decrees of 1656 that confined the insane, the unemployed,…
The plague year
I have been following the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic since January, especially through the remarkable…