The first lesson Costas Douzinas gave me was silence. Not deliberately, I assume. But that is where the story began. It took me the better part of a career inside the state to understand what that silence had been teaching me. At the time, I believed I had found the...

I have returned to the classroom. After years inside bureaucracy – the slow gravity of minutes, clearances, and protocols – I am again among students, texts, and the low hum of ideas. The air is lighter; my wings that carry my creativity remember their work. It has...