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‘Kingdom of the Wicked’ Launch – October 9, Gleebooks, Sydney
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A comment on border walls
This is based on a comment I made here. The success of Israel and Hungary in putting up border barriers has been cited as evidence in favour of President Trump’s proposed Mexican border wall. West Bank...
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The dissident right and the race thing
The blogger Zman provides a very useful summary of the dissident right: If you were trying to reduce the main points of the Dissident Right with a few bullet points, it would be: The people in charge...
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Migration complexities and the campaigns against social bargaining
This is based on a comment I made here. Coming from a country (Australia) with a much higher proportional immigration flow than the US, I find US debates over migration odd. First, the level of illegal...
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Giving something away for free is not a sign of it having value
The progressivist push against citizenship took another big leap forward with the British Labour Party decision committing the Party to giving the vote in general elections to all UK residents. As...
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Montesquieu and the US: explaining the US’s Presidential aberration
That pioneer political scientist Montesquieu‘s theory of the separation of powers was both a very odd take on the English system of government (which he claimed it to be) but also very influential in...
View ArticleWorking class alienation as a driver of political polarisation
This is based on a comment I made here. The US has a legislated two Party system. (Left-cynics say that if the Soviet Communist Party had divided itself into two wings who disagreed on abortion, it...
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Pandemic epistemology: discovery, feedback, ideological pomposity and banana...
I was going to forbear from posting on the Covid-19 pandemic, but this post by Arnold Kling prompted some more general observations about social dynamics. He refers to a podcast by biologists Heather...
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The toll in black lives is why the BLM movement is not worthy of anyone’s...
African-Americans are 2.5 times more likely to be poor than Euro-Americans. African-American males are more than twice as likely to be shot (not necessarily fatally) (pdf) by police than Euro-American...
View ArticleThe social justice steamroller: a pervasive and profound attack on citizenship
Political scientists Eric Kaufman and Matt Goodwin, in a recent online dialogue, discussed how centre-right parties have not found a language to deal with the current woke surge. There is language...
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