Caleb Anderson: The Simplified Life: How the West Lost Its Mind to the Left Brain

It is interesting to reflect on whether ideas corrupt people, or people corrupt ideas. While inevitably a mix, we seem very often to lean toward the latter. The most dangerous thing you can do to an idea is to strip it of its context, and hence of its complexity.

Expat: Unravelling the Fair Go or what have the Romans ever done for us

I never intended to leave New Zealand. I went to the US for a year with no plan to stay, and thirty years have somehow slipped by. Retired now from medical research I’ve been able to return home for a month or two each year, intervals that show my once prosperous and egalitarian country unravelling in real time.