Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Reform – and the neglect of context

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Today’s highlight was a fascinating story by a Peruvian of how local technocrats – trained at US universities – returned to Peru to peddle s...
Monday, July 25, 2022

US vanity

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This blog does not pretend to be familiar with military strategy but, ever since Vietnam, I have doubted US claims to military supremacy. It...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Why do Writers Write?

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With the world in a state of what Adam Tooze has taken to calling “Polycrises ”, it may seem nothing short of offensive for me to have a bee...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Three Books on Power - Why I judge books by their reading lists

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At a time when Europe as a whole is suffering from extreme heat, it seem appropriate to turn to an eminent environmentalist, Richard Heinber...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

The Stories People Tell to make sense of the world - part VI of a series

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Political parties in the US and UK apparently used to be broad coalitions but have become (at least on the right) ideological sects. And tha...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Reflections on national cultures - part V

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This series of posts took an interesting turn when I read Howard Wiarda’s “ Political Culture, political science and identity politics – an ...
Monday, July 11, 2022

On Culture – part IV of a series (2008 to the present)

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Three of today’s books are particularly interesting. I’ve already quoted from Wiarda’s 2014 book so I can leave it and turn first to “ The C...