Essays

Warm Water · Cold Water

In 1848, a Scottish botanist shaved his head, fixed on a false pigtail and walked into China’s tea country.

Oct 20 • Bonjourhi institute

The Wall Before the Bastille

Paris did not rise first against its prison. It rose against the customs gates where the connected passed and everyone else paid. America is building…

Oct 20 • Bonjourhi! Institute

The Negative Vote & The Vote Against Negativity

What happens to a government that won because of what it was not?

Oct 20 • Bonjourhi! Institute

The Waiting Room

A Bonjourhi Series

Oct 9 • Bonjourhi! Institute

The Village Goose

In the version that matches our own moment, the goose was never one man’s to kill.

Oct 5 • Bonjourhi! Institute

Already Written

The ending is written. The people in it have not been told.

Oct 1 • Bonjourhi! Institute

Winning and Not Losing

For years, people have asked me the difference between a Canadian and an American.

Oct 1 • Bonjourhi! Institute

Two Walls - A Double Issue

Not a Fish, Not a Tax

Sep 25 • Bonjourhi! Institute

Lift and Drift - Two Systems, The Same Error

A note on the two essays that follow.

Sep 21 • Bonjourhi! Institute

The Art of the Loss

How the world’s great arms suppliers taught their customers to leave

Sep 18 • Bonjourhi! Institute

Eat Your Vegetables & Thirty Million Pounds

A cost held away from the truth does not disappear.

Sep 16 • Bonjourhi! Institute

The word the landlords used for it was improvement.

Sep 15 • Bonjourhi! Institute

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