Like Gulliver in Lilliput, “greatness” in the political realm depends on the existence of a group deemed puny or weak.

A view from our neighbor

The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...

In September 2024, the final Report of the Public Inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire was published. Seven years after 72 people had been killed, it was d