Public LifeA collection of 11 posts

Public life is where our largest promises meet the institutions, decisions and human beings expected to carry them. Essays, commentary and satire on politics, governance and culture, from Åland outward, with particular attention to the distance between what societies say they value and what they make possible.

Of Cows, Commitees and Kaffeklubb

You can take my coffee from my cold, dead hands. However, the committee structure is negotiable. Flourishing is not permanent happiness. It depends on time, access, trust, useful work, somewhere to belong—and institutions that do not consume more human energy than they return. With a cow in the parliamentary record and fika inexplicably under fire, I explore what it would mean to take Åland’s ambition seriously. Perhaps we could start by making a good life less work to arrange.

Everyone Can Speak

Micke Larsson welcomes discussion. Fredrika Fellman would like an answer. His latest interview and his summer talk raise a question about ambition, power and social sustainability: what changes when a leader’s account of himself meets somebody else’s experience? It is possible to leave Wimbledon without leaving the VIP section. Everyone can speak. But power must answer for what it does.

Public LifeA collection of 11 posts

Of Cows, Commitees and Kaffeklubb

The buck stops here.

“Good Question. I Don’t Know.”