To serve and guide

Weapons used abroad always come home, and weapons of the mind are no different.

In this short fable of midwinter, Susanna Clarke tells of the speech of dogs and pigs and foxes and the woods themselves, who talk to those who know how to listen.

“Mid-way in life’s journey / I found myself in a dark wood, / having lost the way.”

In The Sea and Summer, Melbourne of the mid-twenty-first century is half buried under the rising sea.

In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies argues that organizations form “accountability sinks,” structures that absorb or obscure the consequences of a decision such that no one can be held directly accountable for it.