The poet in a time of terror
In December 2017 a man in a black SUV drove his car into a group of…
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…
The return of sacred violence
“Central to both torture and terror is the political psychology of degradation” Paul Kahn, Sacred violence:…
On tyranny or terror?
The American historian of the holocaust in Eastern Europe, Timothy Snyder has delivered in On Tyranny:…
Islam and false lessons from history.
Tony Abbott has provoked outrage in some circles, and proud banner raising in others, by proposing…
Forebodings
It is not just the Paris attacks but Lebanon, the Russian plane from Egypt and Paris…