God defend New Zealand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6qmdqvItkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTaw6oQmRdM No folks, that is not a joke. Listening to it on occasion over the years, I've grown fond of the New Zealand National...
Lockdown cost-benefit analysis for Australia by Martin Lally
Martin Lally is a kiwi economist who late in 2020 decided to calculate for himself what his own country was losing by locking itself away...
Common features of the Covistance
I am co-writing a book on the Great Panic to explain what happened and what can be done to avoid a repeat. In the course...
Stefan Zweig on killing your darlings and getting to the point
[caption id="attachment_34828" align="aligncenter" width="2560"] I put in "Getting to the point" on the marvellous free graphics site Unsplash, and up came this: by salvatore ventura[/caption]...
Pyramids of lies: Some more from Stefan Zweig
I continue listening to Stefan Zweig's description of the disasters of the twentieth century a passage of which I'll reproduce below. My big essay on...
Australia or Sweden: which has had the better 2020?
Compared to the trends on January 2020, has Australia or Sweden lost more wellbeing in 2020? And which has seen the greater damage to expected...
The more things change … Stefan Zweig on the difference in mood attending the outbreak the two World Wars
I've been listening to The World of Yesterday, the memoirs Stefan Zweig. Zweig was probably the best-known author in 1930s Europe and produced a mountain...