Where the Births Were Written
Synopsis: The fire that gutted Limoges town hall on 17 October 2026 destroyed the office where the city recorded its births and marriages.
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Musings on Democracy and Institutions
Democratic legitimacy, institutions, public trust, civic life, and the fragility of collective decision-making.
Dilemma of the Scriptwriters
Synopsis: Iran’s president spent some of his scarcest hours in New York with the analysts and journalists who draft Washington’s options, rather than with the officials who choose between them.
Coffee Port
Before it was ever a front line, Mokha was just an aroma.
What The Borrowing Buys
Reflections on Debt in Australia and Elsewhere
The Little Blue Book
And the fiction we nostalgically call the international order
Misreading Xi
An Alternative Argument for Australia's Public Inquiry into AUKUS to Consider
The Crown and the Machine
A man in his late seventies stands before the British Parliament wearing several centuries of borrowed authority — crown, ermine, a phalanx of guards whose uniforms date from wars nobody living can possibly remember —...
Certainty’s Standing Ovation
A thousand people rose to their feet in Sydney on 22 August 2026.
Two Priesthoods
My local pharmacy ran out of tablets by the second week.
Outside The Prayer Hall
When Feelings Arrive Before Words
A Correction Before It Arrives
A curator in a regional art gallery is completing the wall text for a group show.
The Instrument and The Cage
What Language Does When No One is Watching
Radius of Trust
How a Threat With No Rivals Still Produces Enemies
The Order That Never Arrived
When Institutions Obey a Rule Nobody Wrote
What Remains When the School Has Gone
A Manifesto for Education Beyond Industrial Economism
Towards a Theocracy of Capital
When Wealth Becomes a Weapon
Prisons Of Our Own Invention
Industrial Economism and the New Servitude
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