This episode of The Burning Archive podcast explores how Havel’s writing, ideas and the model of his way of living in truth remains meaningful to us today. This episode sets out the main events of Havel’s life and the ideas of his political essays. It looks in depth at the “Letter to Gustav Husak” (1975), and its uncanny evocation of aspects of our lives today in a locked down world.
The fall of Kabul has raised questions for Australia about the reliability of its alliance with the United States of America. Will the fall of Kabul and the rise of Eurasia provoke the same questioning of foreign policy by Australia?
Things are very serious here in Australia. There is a mental health crisis. We have endured a state of emergency since March 2020. Normal rules of government decision making have not applied. We have pursued a medical utopia of COVID Zero at stunning cost. It is really something that should never happen again, and hopefully, at the right time in the right way by the right people, will be deeply investigated and reflected on.
And again, now in September, I repost this act of refusal to submit to despair. *****…
Thus , in a few blitzkrieg weeks, after the Americans declared they would “draw down their civilian footprint” to meet a publicity deadline of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the Taliban have exposed American power and control in Afghanistan as a projection of illusion, a Potemkin Province of an anxious empire in decline.
The latest episode of The Burning Archive Podcast is out and available on all the usual platforms, including Apple and Spotify….
The latest episode of The Burning Archive Podcast is out and available on all the usual platforms, including Apple and Spotify….
The latest episode of The Burning Archive Podcast is out and available on all the usual…
I have posted episode 7 of The Burning Archive Podcast – the ordinary virtues of governing well….
I have posted episode 6 of The Burning Archive Podcast, – the true history of the…