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…
11 years with WordPress – from the archive: Good Government Starts Today
Earlier this week I got a message from WordPress that I had passed my 11th anniversary…
On human frailty in governing
Once ten years ago I gave answers to one of those personal profile questionnaires that aimed…
Do we repair our republics with big ideas or ordinary virtues?
My old boss and sometime mentor, Terry Moran, has given an oration in which he sets…
On the rescue of society
Writing in the New York Times (Jan 10 2019), David Brooks proposes the “remoralization of the market” as the…
What I am reading… on governing and imagination
amzn.asia/0CNwQ94 from John Dunn, Breaking Democracy’s Spell
The meaning of a coup
Barely a week ago Australia was gripped in political drama – a clumsily organised coup was…
The tragedy of the modern university
Jordan Peterson has proposed the creation of an alternative to the modern university that offers free…
Bureaucratic utopianism
Bureaucracy is not meant to be Utopian. After all, is not bureaucracy the home of the…
More reflections on 2017: persistence, terror and Das Schloss
Persistence Twelve months ago I was approaching Christmas and the end of a liberating period of…