Archive for March 2026

February 27, 2026 Woman Helping a Sick Person to Drink, Between 1824 and 1828, Francisco Goya, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons James Plunkett notes that the problem with gov’t runs deep; it’s not enough to try harder, or to run things better, because at least part of the problem relates to the logic by which bureaucracy…

February 27, 2026 The escape refugees from the Libey Prison, February 1864, See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Bureaucracy is an outdated, centralised control system for organisations that do not work with an ethos of co-creation and that do not believe in shared value. So says Petra Andersen in Apolitical. It’s past-time to break…

February 27, 2026 Early German edition of Franz Kafka’s The Trial, 1925 © Foto H.-P.Haack, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Like Orwell and Huxley, author Franz Kafka predicted in fiction the rise of the rigid, absurdist, all-powerful bureaucratic state in 1925’s The Trial. Interesting Literature explores novel’s critique of the Borg-like state. In a sense, the English title by which…