A newsletter devoted not to polemic, but to trying to make sense of today's world.
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Hiatus.
I was travelling for a lot of the last month, and my essays were consequently written in disconnected paragraphs in curious and improbable places and situations, and stuck together with virtual glue. I hope the joins were not too noticeable...
Signs Are Not Wonders.
I was born in a time of miracles and wonders, or so it seemed, at least.
Motor cars were still quite rare, especially in working-class districts, but televisions were slowly becoming more common, with their fascinating if disconcerting abi...
The Road Not Taken.
I began writing these essays some four years ago, because I felt that there was far too much polemic and bad temper on the Internet, and not enough informed analysis. I had no desire to shove a begging bowl under the noses of people who alr...
No More Normal.
I’ve written a fair amount over the last few years about the implications of the use of new military technologies in Ukraine and the Middle East, and I’ve noticed the problems a lot of pundits seem to have wrapping their neurones around cur...
They Don't Care.
There have been political and ideological systems in history that sought to dictate popular understandings of truth and knowledge; there have been systems that have fought violently over the meaning and control of both of them, and more rec...
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