Journalists draft history? The public sphere, Habermas and the post-democratic society. Emmanuel Todd on the tasks ahead for advanced societies. History as a moral art that encounters the living past in an infinite conversation.
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On human frailty in governing
Today I am reposting this piece from July 2019, following the 2019 Australian election. It is newly relevant today as the American republic wrestles with how to save its crumbling political institutions from the oligarchs, their corrupt parasites and mercenaries, and its failing imperial war faction. As Edward Erler asks in The American Mind, IsContinueContinue reading “On human frailty in governing”
To govern does not equal to change
In 2016 following the vote on Brexit, an American political journalist wrote: “But what if progressivism isn’t inevitable at all? What if people will always be inclined by nature to love their own — themselves, their families, their neighbors, members of their churches, their fellow citizens, their country — more than they love the placelessContinueContinue reading “To govern does not equal to change”
On human frailty in governing
Once ten years ago I gave answers to one of those personal profile questionnaires that aimed to help people know more about their colleagues at work. It asked questions like “how would you describe your childhood?” “what film changed your life?” “what are your favourite books?” and so on. I put some effort into itContinueContinue reading “On human frailty in governing”