Who gets to name the world? By Rod Benson Imagine a government announcing that it will “right-size” a service. The phrase sounds responsible, yet tells us little. Will people lose their jobs? Will a hospital close? Who decided what the “right” size is? The wording has not concealed every fact, but it has delayed the …
Knowledge of the past
“Most of all, perhaps, we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems …
