Free speech and public service
A minor controversy has broken out in Australia over restrictions on the free speech of public…
Commuting fragment: Julia sets
When people speak to me about complexity, I often pause and consider the synonyms that they…
Why is alcohol policy difficult?
About 10 years ago I took a job running an alcohol and drug policy unit in…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat VIII: involved in what I know
VIII I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird…
13 ways of looking at bureaucrat IV: in unity is death.
A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat III: the craft of the cameo actor
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime. Wallace…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat (II): the three-eyed raven
I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. Wallace Stevens,…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat: vigilance amidst stillness
Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. (Wallace Stevens,…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat
“Psychoanalysts don’t usually write essays; they tend to write lectures or papers or chapters, or what…
Democracy’s discontents
Election nights are rites of reunification. The divisions of a society spew out over weeks, with…