Sailing to Byzantium
Since I am on holidays from work, and not consumed with duties and obligations, I have…
More reflections on 2017: a multi-polar world
I was asked the other day in conversation with a friend, what was the best thing…
Reflections on 2017: cultural decay and political institutions
In reviewing my notes for the year – diligently if effortlessly recorded in Evernote – I…
Reflections on 2017
The year is drawing to a close, and while it is yet weeks from New Year,…
Self-portrait in a time of hunger
“The storm of progress now threatens to burn the remaining archives of human memory. In an…
The death of the soul
In The Australian this weekend Greg Sheridan, the conservative and perceptive foreign affairs journalist, comments on…
Republics in distress
As I look around the world at the state of politics, I conclude that our democratic…
Mr Dylan’s bad language
I like to check out the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The world of…
On humility
For many years I have believed that Carl Jung once said or wrote that “you must…
Six asides about culture (and Havel, reblogged)
“Who among us can know what may seem today to be marginal graphomania might not one…