I. Prologue A star throws down its spear Shrieking silently, slicing With serrated certainty A point out of eternity It cuts a narrow path And slips between the lines Fingerless hands leave shallow smudges Strings of soot in cracked-earth throats They soliloquise an absence of outlines In a cacophony of…

In ‘On Liberty‘ (1859), British philosopher John Stuart Mill, ‘the heir apparent’ to the mantle of utilitarianism(1), set out to define the balance between the ‘unconscionable’ extremes of anarchy and absolutism(2). Mill’s attempt to delineate the grounds of government interference into the life of its citizens and defend individual liberty…

Anarchy wears a sly mask of reason Meanings measured in memorable rows Within the smothering smog of treason A fear and trembling at what could be grows The air beats with sycophantic laughter Each wave a wheezing memorial, spat In spray at other selves, roped from rafters Laps at softly swaying soles, hung flat A cloth person, sown with an iron grille Eyes seamed shut-in silence, lips caked in rust

“May you live in interesting times” - Traditional Chinese curse, the implication being that times of interest are those of suffering. At times of ease we are driven to find strife. In the midst of the storm, we yearn for that which will deliver ease. For most of human history…

Breathe Out You have time to spare You’re on a path A twisting Twisted Turning Aching snapping scraping screaming Road You’ll build Each brick placed With calloused hands Rubbed raw that Weep with sweat and dust Congealing and Holding it in place so you can Drag Torn and hanging knees …

States are defined by their powers to govern the associations between people, and have been justified and discredited by contractual and moral arguments, the latter seeming stronger. In Hobbes’s theory of the modern state, the will of the population must be subordinated to a dominant sovereign to avert lives that…

“Who will educate the educators?” -Karl Marx In a history littered with ideals and aspirations, it is the educators, not emperors, who have truly changed the world. Each of the great teachers this essay will discuss presented radically different models of what liberty, freedom and justice could mean, and how…

Eunice Newton Foote The Mother Of Climate Science. By all rights, hers should be a household name.

Think back, if you will, to a time you felt homesick. You’re scared, confused, overwhelmed until every fibre in your body is screaming at you to go home- somewhere, warm, somewhere safe, where just for a moment everything can seem okay. It’s tentatively estimated that our country harbours as many…