Reflections on the emergence of Jordan B Peterson
#1 – One recent Jordan B Peterson podcast is his appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival….
The tragedy of the modern university
Jordan Peterson has proposed the creation of an alternative to the modern university that offers free…
Able Archer 83 and the virtue of human decision making
Over the weekend I read Taylor Downing, 1983: the world at the brink. It gave me…
Bureaucratic utopianism
Bureaucracy is not meant to be Utopian. After all, is not bureaucracy the home of the…
The collapsing new buildings of government
“In truth, the problem of declining trust in political institutions, is better conceived as the collapse of authority of the…
Cultural fragmentation and the collapse of authority in Western democracies
During the week I was discussing with a young colleague at work the preparation of a…
More reflections on 2017: The end of history revisited
In 2017 Francis Fukuyama published two podcasts providing a retrospective account of his essay, “The End…
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…
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…