13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat
In early 2017 I wrote a series of posts – or let us call them essays…
Sound and fury told by the American cultural “elite”
There are few funny stories to emerge from American politics over the last two months, especially…
The impeachment curse
The final forced impeachment of Donald Trump has ended in the result that should never happen…
America’s fate: civil war, fragmentation or collapse?
Today after the distressing events and death in the Capitol building of Washington DC that interrupted…
Cultural fragmentation and the collapse of authority in Western democracies
My repost today comes from 22 April 2018, and seems relevant to the difficulties we are…
Viral Meltdown – Year in Review
As part of my The Kaeleidoscope of 2020: Year in Review post I have updated with…
On human frailty in governing
Today I am reposting this piece from July 2019, following the 2019 Australian election. It is…
A solution to political decay: the ordinary virtues of governing well
I am reposting this reflection on the response to political decay in the midst of the…
America’s Hispanic Past and its Hispanic Future Proves it is not Exceptional
“even well-educated, amiable, open-minded people in the United States do not realize that their country has…
Our barren, deformed political society
And if and when Trump is no longer President, all the ills of political system can…