The Free Speech Union’s latest blog insists that “words are not violence, but violence is.” On the surface, it sounds neat, even clever: speech is harmless, only actions matter. But scratch that veneer and you see the rot. It’s one of the most disingenuous lines anyone could write.

The Broadest Horizon of Power Power does not only punish. It does not only discipline. As Michel Foucault argued in the final stage of his work, modern power governs life itself. It counts births, manages health, regulates reproduction, categorises sexuality, and seeks to optimise populations. It no longer stops at

The therapeutic relationship—not a clinician's unfettered hot takes—is the point of such regulation.                                                                                                                                                     Political Wellington suspects every rule or regulation is a plot by clipboard bureaucrats to ruin a good kiwi Southland sausage roll. Fair enough—bad rules deserve repeal. But here's one domain