I am an anarch in space, a metahistorian in time. Hence I am committed to neither the political present nor tradition; I am blank and also open and potent in any direction. Dear old Dad, in contrast, still pours his wine into the same decaying old wineskins, he still believes in a constitution when nothing and no one constitutes anything.

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Themes

  • History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation
  • Politics — Governance, civic duty, and the structures of power

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