If you want a parliamentary democracy with responsible and accountable ministers, you have to complement the high-profile political role of a minister with that of a neutral, faceless bureaucrat, confined to the role of an adviser.

Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain.

The potlatch theory of the arms race also overlooks the unconscionable risk both superpowers took of omnicidal war.

In the metaphor of the labyrinth as a placeful Of dangers Dunn Consciously shows the limits of the dream of the pure painting.