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May 12, 2024

These are the catering classes

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From Deer Hunting with Jesus (Joe Bageant, 2007) pp258-9

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May 11, 2024

Israel is the key to everything

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From Deer Hunting with Jesus (Joe Bageant, 2007) pp162-8

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May 8, 2024

A gangster capitalist class

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From Deer Hunting with Jesus (Joe Bageant, 2007) pp88-92

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May 5, 2024

Contorted mental gymnastics

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From How to Win an Information War (Peter Pomerantsev, 2024 ) pp159-60

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April 25, 2024

Doudna quits

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From The Code Breaker (Walter Isaacson, 2021) pp210-2

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April 9, 2024

White Australia

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From Manning Clark’s History of Australia (Ed: Michael Cathcart, 1993) pp411-2

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March 29, 2024

Blacks were being driven away too

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From Dark Star Safari (Paul Theroux, 2002) pp356-8

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March 23, 2024

Structural unfairness

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From The making of America’s fury (Evan Osnos, 2021) pp52-3

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March 15, 2024

They are the future of this country

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From The Rebels (Joshua Green, 2024) pp174-6

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March 10, 2024

Obama’s populist makeover

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From The Rebels (Joshua Green, 2024) pp147-51

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March 9, 2024

A Little Learning

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From Chums (Simon Kuper, 2022) pp38-41

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March 8, 2024

Warren’s brand of liberal populism

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From The Rebels (Joshua Green, 2024) pp83-6

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March 1, 2024

Human nature as such is at stake

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From The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt, 1951) pp590-2

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February 28, 2024

The worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope

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From The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt, 1951) pp575-7

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February 27, 2024

Objective enemy

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From The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt, 1951) pp448-51

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February 23, 2024

Job holders and good family men

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From The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt, 1951) pp446-9

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February 22, 2024

Meine Ehre heisst Treue

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From The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt, 1951) pp428-32

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February 21, 2024

Sanitation worked

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From Doom (Niall Ferguson, 2021) pp158-9

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February 20, 2024

The germs of a deadly sickness

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From The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt, 1951) pp368

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February 17, 2024

Not remembered by human history.

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From The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt, 1951) pp250-4

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February 11, 2024

The impossibility of social democracy

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From Techno Feudalism: What killed capitalism (Yanis Varoufakis, 2023) pp179-85

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February 10, 2024

Two, conflicting, super cloud fiefs

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From Techno Feudalism: What killed capitalism (Yanis Varoufakis, 2023) pp151-3

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February 8, 2024

Krushevan and the forgery

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From Pogrom: Kishinev and the tilt of history (Steven J. Zipperstein, 2018) pp167-70

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January 25, 2024

Surplus elites

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From The New Leviathans (John Gray, 2023)

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January 23, 2024

The Wealth Pump

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From End Times (Peter Turchin, 2023) p238

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January 12, 2024

Identity, mobility, prosperity, security and sovereignty – the conservative base.

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From Geography is Destiny (Ian Morris, 2022) pp13-5

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January 7, 2024

Information processing is critical to social development

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From Why the West Rules – for now (Ian Morris, 2010) pp148-9

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November 8, 2023

Elements for a participatory socialism

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From Capital and Ideology (Thomas Picketty, 2020) p967

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November 4, 2023

Noise and smells

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From Capital and Ideology (Thomas Picketty, 2020) p830

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October 7, 2023

Lang had seen Kilcoy coming

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From Killing for Country (David Marr, 2023) pp128-30

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July 7, 2023

A new model … “mafia state”

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From Surviving Autocracy (Masha Gessen, 2022) pp4-6

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Arguments are often lost this way. .

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From Surviving Autocracy (Masha Gessen, 2022) pp114-6

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June 17, 2023

Anti-Semitism was a fixture of the Czech state

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From Still Pictures (Janet Malcolm, 2023) pp10-12

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May 28, 2023

“One People, One Reich, One Faith”

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William Shirer, 1960) pp236-40

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May 18, 2023

A state within a state

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William Shirer, 1960) pp118-21

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May 10, 2023

Amongst the elite

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From The Bodies of Others (Naomi Wolf 2022) pp50-2

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Reasonable goals

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From The Bodies of Others (Naomi Wolf 2022) p154

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May 4, 2023

A new social experiment?

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From The Bodies of Others (Naomi Wolf 2022) p131

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April 16, 2023

Omissions and double standards

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From The War on the West (Douglas Murray 2022) pp174-83

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April 3, 2023

Support for political extremism

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From The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism (Martin Wolf 2022)

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The educated have a huge advantage

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From Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (Anne Case & Angus Deaton, 2020) pp52-3

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April 2, 2023

A new destiny

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From The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century (Peter Watson, 2022)

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March 31, 2023

We have largely ignored …

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From How the World Really Works (Vaclav Siml, 2022) p190-1

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March 28, 2023

The wave of the future?

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From How the World Really Works (Vaclav Siml, 2022) p132-3

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March 26, 2023

Everybody would be pitching in

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From How the World Really Works (Vaclav Siml, 2022) p66

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Potatoes partly made of oil.

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From How the World Really Works (Vaclav Siml, 2022) p74-5

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The four material pillars of modern civilization

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From How the World Really Works (Vaclav Siml, 2022) p41

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February 15, 2023

High cultural values

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From History’s Fools: The Pursuit of Idealism and the Revenge of Politics (David Martin Jones, 2022) p13

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February 8, 2023

A teller of half-truths

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From Deep South (Paul Theroux) p348-50

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February 4, 2023

We should use contact tracing to find superspreaders.

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From How to prevent the next pandemic (Bill Gates, 2022) p97-100

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January 29, 2023

Something weirdly colonial

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From Deep South (Paul Theroux) p162-3

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January 17, 2023

Tapping out the code

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From Deep South (Paul Theroux) p96-8

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January 13, 2023

An alien at home

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From Deep South (Paul Theroux) p18-20

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December 10, 2022

… what “politics” means for us …

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From Politics as a Vocation (Max Weber, The Vocation Lectures) p33

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November 18, 2022

Forty interlocking committees

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From That Hideous Strength (C.S. Lewis, 1945) p38

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November 5, 2022

Surely, nothing could be worse.

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From The Human Condition (Hannah Arendt, 1958 1998) pp2-5

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October 12, 2022

They can’t afford to be wrong.

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From Mistakes were made but not by me (Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, 2016) pp296-9

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September 6, 2022

Law & Order in Asia

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From The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia (Paul Theroux, 1975)

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August 30, 2022

In the giant planetary hypermarket

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From On the plain of snakes (Paul Theroux, 2019) pp406-10

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August 7, 2022

The wounded healer

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MD audio

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July 30, 2022

Speech is what makes man a political being

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From The Human Condition (Hannah Arendt, 1958, 2018) pp 1-6

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June 12, 2022

A tragic story

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From The Land of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s (Mark Davis, 2008) pp 38-41

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May 24, 2022

The same region by another name

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From Contest for the Indo-Pacific (Rory Medcalf, 2020) pp 102-6

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May 12, 2022

Force

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From Contest for the Indo-Pacific (Rory Medcalf, 2020) pp 16-7

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April 23, 2022

MIC 2025

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From The Avoidable War (Kevin Rudd, 2022) pp 72-5

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A substantive strategic alliance.

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From The Avoidable War (Kevin Rudd, 2022) pp 35-7

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April 11, 2022

To claim God is on your side is no guarantee of virtue

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From Dangerous Allies (Malcolm Fraser, 2014) pp 20-3

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April 3, 2022

“memory alone can be a form of justice”

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From In Europe’s Shadow (Robert D. Kaplan, 2016) pp 215-8

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April 2, 2022

There are incalculable human costs to Western inaction

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From In Europe’s Shadow (Robert D. Kaplan, 2016) pp 175-6

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March 16, 2022

“Cut their throats”

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From Churchill and the Jews (Martin Gilbert, 2007) pp 52-6

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March 13, 2022

A Jewish homeland in Palestine

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From Churchill and the Jews (Martin Gilbert, 2007) pp 10-12

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March 12, 2022

Geographic logic

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From In Europe’s Shadow (Robert D. Kaplan, 2016) pp 47-8

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January 25, 2022

“You’re just a pack of liars”

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From Spying on the South (Tony Horwitz, 2019) pp 242-9

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January 24, 2022

Huey Long foreshadowed Trump

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From Spying on the South (Tony Horwitz, 2019) pp 131-2

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December 31, 2021

She’d done a course in cosmetology

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From Deep South (Paul Theroux, 2015) pp 269-71

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December 30, 2021

The Truth Won’t Out

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From Dishonesty is the second-best policy (David Mitchell, 2019) pp 4-8

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December 29, 2021

The Inevitable Mr. Patel

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From Deep South (Paul Theroux, 2015) pp 159-63

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December 28, 2021

She hates the unions

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From Deep South (Paul Theroux, 2015) pp 42,44,48

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December 24, 2021

Packing the Court

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From Yesterday’s Man: The case against Joe Biden (Branko Marcetic, 2020) pp 85

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December 22, 2021

“They covered it up”

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From Rage (Bob Woodward, 2020) pp 333-5

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October 16, 2021

The Waste Generation

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From Notes from a Big Country (Bill Bryson, 1998) pp 235-8

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Socrates on Merit

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From The Consolations of Philosophy (Alain De Botton, 2008) pp 19-20

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September 26, 2021

The most potent military base south of Guam

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From China Panic (David Brophy, 2021) pp 90-3
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September 25, 2021

A convenient location

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From China Panic (David Brophy, 2021) pp 77-8
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September 18, 2021

C4ISR – the new catch-phrase for Oz

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From The End Game (Rush Doshi, 2021) pp 323-5

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Straddling fault-lines

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Swept up by relentless flood of mingled Authoritarianism & Capitalism. Australia with both feet in the quagmire.

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September 10, 2021

The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation

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From The End Game (Rush Doshi, 2021) pp 264, 267-71

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August 23, 2021

Democratization of digital connectivity

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From ‘Out Of The Mountains‘ (David Kilcullen, 2013) pp173-6

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August 21, 2021

Without satellites, without an air force

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From Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin, 2006) pp 273-4

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The emerging environment of coastal megacities.

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From ‘Out Of The Mountains‘ (David Kilcullen, 2013) pp261-4

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August 7, 2021

The warning of John Cotton

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From The Irony of American History (Reinhold Niebuhr, 1952) 21-3

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August 4, 2021

We will teach those little people a lesson.

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From The River at the Centre of the World (Simon Winchester, 1996) 133-9

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July 20, 2021

Work Hard to Make the Company Prosperous

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From The Life and Death of Democracy (John Keane, 2009) 832-6

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July 9, 2021

Kefauver liked to investigate things.

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From Empire of Pain (Patrick Radden Keene, 2021) 82-4

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April 18, 2021

Joining the dots

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US withdrawal from AF marks end of US-Islam wars.

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March 31, 2021

Repudiate neoliberalism, and build back better.

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From Unmasked: The Politics of Pandemics (Bill Bowtell, 2021) excerpts

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February 13, 2021

The absence of insects

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From God Save Texas (Lawrence Wright, 2018) pp311

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February 9, 2021

A sinister, bewildering dreamscape

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From Twilight of the Elites (Christopher Hayes, 2012) p104-7

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February 4, 2021

Hyper-Globalization and its Discontents

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From Money and Government (Robert Skidelsky, 2018) p311-4

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The question of how capitalism will evolve

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From Capitalism, Alone (Branko Milanovic, 2019) p216-7

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A dystopia of personal relations

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From Capitalism, Alone (Branko Milanovic, 2019) p196-7

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February 2, 2021

Global inequality of opportunity is not … a problem

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From Capitalism, Alone (Branko Milanovic, 2019) p157-8

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January 31, 2021

They do not want to subsidize the “others”

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From Capitalism, Alone (Branko Milanovic, 2019) p51-3

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January 30, 2021

Unity is a chimera that some will always pursue

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From Twilight of Democracy (Anne Applebaum, 2020) p109-13

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January 25, 2021

There would have been no Lexus

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From What’s wrong with Economics? (Robert Skidelsky, 2020) p36

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January 24, 2021

Our utilitarian political culture

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From How Much is Enough? (Robert Skidelsky & Edward Skidelsky, 2012) pp176-7

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January 22, 2021

I don’t see anything!

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From We have been harmonised (Kai Strittmatter, 2020) pp246-50

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January 21, 2021

The Master Algorithm

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From We have been harmonised (Kai Strittmatter, 2020) pp183-8

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January 20, 2021

Singles Day

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From We have been harmonised (Kai Strittmatter, 2020) pp102-3

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Xi-time

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From We have been harmonised (Kai Strittmatter, 2020) pp138-9

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January 17, 2021

Business as usual in America’s backyard

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From The concise untold history of the United States (Oliver Stone & Peter Kuznick, 2015) pp257-62

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A truly American obsession — the fear of weakness.

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From The concise untold history of the United States (Oliver Stone & Peter Kuznick, 2015) pp197-205

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January 15, 2021

Racism prevailed

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From The concise untold history of the United States (Oliver Stone & Peter Kuznick, 2015) pp95-6

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January 13, 2021

Tanks, bayonets, and tear gas.

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From The concise untold history of the United States (Oliver Stone & Peter Kuznick, 2015) pp34-41

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January 9, 2021

Texas leads the way

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From God Save Texas (Lawrence Wright, 2018) pp280-3

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The long and bloody march of Texas history

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From God Save Texas (Lawrence Wright, 2018) pp271-4

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January 8, 2021

Argyria

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From God Save Texas (Lawrence Wright, 2018) pp262-5

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January 7, 2021

Recount the vote!

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From God Save Texas (Lawrence Wright, 2018) pp133-6

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January 4, 2021

This is Buurtzorg

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From Extra Time (Camilla Cavendish, 2019) pp173-8

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January 2, 2021

Geriatric peace

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From Extra Time (Camilla Cavendish, 2019) pp16-8

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January 1, 2021

The Story of the Sugar Tax

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From Extra Time (Camilla Cavendish, 2019) pp63-5

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Toward better telehealth consultations

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John Campbell’s COVID19 updates on Youtube could be an exemplar.

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November 30, 2020

Luanda: the improvised city

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From The Last Train to Zona Verde (Paul Theroux, 2013) pp318-9

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November 29, 2020

Heaven is high and the emperor is far away

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From The Last Train to Zona Verde (Paul Theroux, 2013)

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November 8, 2020

Alone, Unarmed, Afraid

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From The Fear (Peter Godwin, 2010) p135-42

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October 30, 2020

Like asking for the moon

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From The wonderful mistake (Lewis Thomas, 1988) p28-32

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October 22, 2020

We’re afraid of strangers

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From The Demon-Haunted World (Carl Sagan, 1997) p388- etc

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October 13, 2020

Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester

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From Britain’s Best Museums and Galleries (Mark Fisher, 2004) p299

Manchester’s industries remembered in mighty 19th-century warehouses and market hall

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August 30, 2020

Chaos, like the grave, is a haven of equality.

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From The True Believer (Eric Hoffer, 1951) pp98-101

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August 29, 2020

Let the sleeping morality lie

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:25 pm

From Strangers at Our Door (Zygmunt Bauman, 2016) pp107-12

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August 24, 2020

Democracy does not breed democrats

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:27 pm

From Can it happen here?: Authoritarianism in America (Ed: Cass Sunstein, 2018) pp209-11

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July 26, 2020

The “inner dialectic” of expansion

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:13 pm

From The End of the Myth (Greg Grandin, 2019) pp284-5

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July 25, 2020

A restored imperial presidency

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 9:34 am

From The End of the Myth (Greg Grandin, 2019) pp218-222

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July 24, 2020

The promise of endless economic growth

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 11:00 am

From The End of the Myth (Greg Grandin, 2019) pp197-200

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July 18, 2020

Saxon freedom

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:01 pm

From The End of the Myth (Greg Grandin, 2019) pp114-7

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July 17, 2020

War-sharpened racism & blood-soaked entitlement

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:16 pm

From The End of the Myth (Greg Grandin, 2019) pp96-9

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Foreigners in their own land

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 1:33 pm

From The End of the Myth (Greg Grandin, 2019) pp94-6

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July 11, 2020

Where endless sky meets endless hate

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:58 pm

From The End of the Myth (Greg Grandin, 2019) pp14-6

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His own worst and most terrible enemy

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:46 pm

From The Cold War (John Lewis Gaddis, 2005) pp46-7

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July 9, 2020

Not, as it turns out, to infinity

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:29 pm

From The End of the Myth (Greg Grandin, 2019) pp2-5

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June 19, 2020

New dilemmas

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:09 pm

From The Language of God (Francis S. Collins, 2006) pp270-2

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June 14, 2020

Foxes do it better

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:54 pm

From On Grand Strategy (John Lewis Gaddis, 2018) pp8-9

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June 11, 2020

Stan Grant @ABCTheDrum 26/5/2020 on liberalism

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 1:48 pm

[part of his comment, from abt 49min]

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May 26, 2020

Competition and criticism in every walk of life

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:54 pm

From Alien Powers (Kenneth Minogue, 1985) pp172-4

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May 24, 2020

The appeal to magic

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 7:17 pm

From Alien Powers (Kenneth Minogue, 1985) pp167-70

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May 21, 2020

The profession of denunciation

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:46 pm

From George F. Kennan: An American Life (John Lewis Gaddis, 2011) pp488-90

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May 13, 2020

A very long sentence

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 1:41 pm

From George F. Kennan: An American Life (John Lewis Gaddis, 2011) pp437-8

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April 28, 2020

Anchored in the experience of centuries

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 6:53 pm

From George F. Kennan: An American Life (John Lewis Gaddis, 2011) pp243-6, 250

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April 26, 2020

A profoundly democratic approach

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:22 pm

From George F. Kennan: An American Life (John Lewis Gaddis, 2011) pp167-9

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April 15, 2020

A devastation of the human world

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:38 pm

From Alien Powers (Kenneth Minogue, 1985) pp70-3

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April 14, 2020

Ideological theories do not generalize; they discover models

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 1:40 pm

From Alien Powers (Kenneth Minogue, 1985) pp48-50

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April 13, 2020

The emergence of ideology

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 10:45 am

From Alien Powers (Kenneth Minogue, 1985) pp17-9

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April 10, 2020

Alas!

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 6:21 am

From After Virtue (Alasdair MacIntyre, 1997) pp258-9

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April 7, 2020

The corrupting power of institutions

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:17 pm

From After Virtue (Alasdair MacIntyre, 1997) pp194-5

(more…)

April 5, 2020

The new dark ages

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:42 pm

From After Virtue (Alasdair MacIntyre, 1997) pp263

(more…)

March 30, 2020

Financial power

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:52 pm

From The Knowledge Wars (Peter Doherty, 2015) pp160-2

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March 16, 2020

Perfidious Albion

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:01 pm

From The Phoney Victory (Peter Hitchens, 2019) pp102-3

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March 15, 2020

Character, Role and Personality

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:12 pm

From After Virtue (Alasdair MacIntyre, 1997) pp27-30

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March 10, 2020

Ruinous arms race

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 7:50 pm

From The Phoney Victory (Peter Hitchens, 2019) pp76-8

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Identity masquerading as ideology

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:56 pm

From This Is Not Propaganda (Peter Pomerantsev, 2019) pp208-11

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March 8, 2020

Their revenge, when it came, was terrible.

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:24 pm

From The Lost Boys (Gina Perry, 2018) pp56-61

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‘A coincidence? I don’t think so!’

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:14 pm

From This Is Not Propaganda (Peter Pomerantsev, 2019) pp68-9

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You couldn’t see the enemy

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 1:45 pm

From This Is Not Propaganda (Peter Pomerantsev, 2019) pp23-30

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March 7, 2020

The warning that went unheeded

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:59 pm

From The Road to Unfreedom (Timothy Snyder, 2018) pp208-15

(more…)

February 15, 2020

We know how to reduce harm

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 12:30 pm

From Dead Right (Richard Denniss, 2019) pp146-9

(more…)

Graft, kickbacks & old boys’ clubs

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 12:25 pm

From Dead Right (Richard Denniss, 2019) pp143-6

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February 8, 2020

The gas is already in the air

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:44 pm

From The Weather Makers (Tim Flannery, 2005) pp164-5

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What he really wrote about sea-level rise

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 7:07 am

From The Weather Makers (Tim Flannery, 2005) pp149-50

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January 19, 2020

All sponsors must also be thanked in the appropriately sized font

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:36 pm

From Dead Right (Richard Denniss, 2019) pp6-11

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January 6, 2020

Dictatorial power at any price

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:49 pm

From The Lesser Evil (Michael Ignatieff, 2003) pp41-4

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December 24, 2019

Prophetic anointing

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:17 pm

From Counterfeit Revival: Unmasking the Truth Behind the World Wide Counterfeit Revival (Hank Hanegraaff, 1997) ppiii-ix (Foreword by Tom Stipe)

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December 20, 2019

Russian politics of eternity

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:05 pm

From The Road to Unfreedom (Timothy Snyder, 2018) pp122-4

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December 11, 2019

Ellul on Hatred

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:41 pm

From Propaganda (Jacques Ellul, 1965) pp72-7, 152-3, 162-3

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December 8, 2019

Construction of a myth of innocence

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:40 pm

From The Road to Unfreedom (Timothy Snyder, 2018) pp58-60

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December 6, 2019

True believers and their deeply held myths

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 11:24 am

From Mr Putin (Fiona Hill & Clifford Gaddy, 2015) p380-1

(more…)

The Conservative International

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 11:02 am

From Mr Putin (Fiona Hill & Clifford Gaddy, 2015) p350-2

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December 2, 2019

Harnessing the Power of Orthodoxy

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:10 pm

From Mr Putin (Fiona Hill & Clifford Gaddy, 2015) p253-6

(more…)

November 24, 2019

The Survivalist

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:15 pm

From Mr Putin (Fiona Hill & Clifford Gaddy, 2015) p76-7

(more…)

November 19, 2019

The savagery of their conflicts

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:19 pm

From Black Mass (John Gray, 2007) p185-8

(more…)

November 10, 2019

$36 per ton

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 1:34 pm

From Farsighted (Steven Johnson, 2018) p130-2

(more…)

Building a mental forecast

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 10:43 am

From Farsighted (Steven Johnson, 2018) p122-3

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October 30, 2019

Transgressive energy of the untrammelled market

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 11:02 am

From Black Mass (John Gray, 2007) p91-3

(more…)

October 29, 2019

Combating Global Islamist Terrorism

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:54 pm

From Leaderless Jihad (Marc Sageman, 2008) p175-8

(more…)

October 27, 2019

They are all disciples of the Jacobins

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:10 pm

From Black Mass (John Gray, 2007) p26-7

(more…)

October 12, 2019

They Will All Be There on Sydney’s Shores

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:49 pm

From Eye on Australia (Geoffrey Blainey, 1991) p134-7

(more…)

October 7, 2019

Capitalism’s riches so glaringly concentrated

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:39 pm

From A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore, 2018) p198-200

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October 6, 2019

At least the chicken was cheap.

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 6:08 pm

From A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore, 2018) p152-3

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October 5, 2019

Into the company of the heroic.

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 1:09 pm

From Alien Powers: the pure theory of ideology (Kenneth Minogue, 1985) p118-22

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October 2, 2019

Europe’s wealthy ate the sugar, and sugar ate the island.

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:29 pm

From A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore, 2018) p14-17

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September 17, 2019

The elephant

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 7:58 pm

From The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Edward Luce, 2017) p32-9

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September 15, 2019

A mixture of gullibility and cynicism

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:20 pm

From The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt, 2004, p499)

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September 6, 2019

The magic name of Krupp

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:34 pm

From Blood and Iron (Peter Mason, 1984) pp122-4

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August 20, 2019

He understood the uses of the media

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 11:07 am

From Rome (Robert Hughes, 2011) pp435-6, 454-5, 462

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August 12, 2019

Tony Abbott on USSR, 1982

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 10:50 am

From Quarterly Essay 48, 2012 (Correspondence re ‘Political Animal’ by George Brandis, pp82-3

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August 11, 2019

Taiwan is the big prize. Washington is the biggest obstacle.

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:20 pm

From The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Edward Luce, 2017) p162-7

(more…)

The Reaction

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 11:56 am

From The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Edward Luce, 2017) p118-21

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August 4, 2019

No longer barbaric

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:43 pm

From A Most Dangerous Book (Christopher B. Krebs, 2011) pp92-6

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July 28, 2019

Ethnic shoehorning

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 12:20 pm

From The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Edward Luce, 2017) p94-7

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July 26, 2019

Dashed expectations

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:02 pm

From The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Edward Luce, 2017) p31-5

(more…)

July 22, 2019

The Blacks were considered unfriendly

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 6:23 pm

From I Can Jump Puddles (Alan Marshall, 1965) p41

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July 18, 2019

Because God likes us best

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:53 pm

From The Lost Continent (Bill Bryson, 1996) p265-6

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July 17, 2019

Some of them can hardly speak a coherent sentence.

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:42 pm

From The Lost Continent (Bill Bryson, 1996) p212-4

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July 14, 2019

Back to a timeless, placeless, utopian Germanien

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:27 pm

From A Most Dangerous Book (Christopher B. Krebs, 2011) pp214-7

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July 12, 2019

Modernization

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 7:37 pm

From The Post-American World (Fareed Zakaria, 2008) pp73-7

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Davos culture

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:21 pm

From Twilight of the Elites (Christopher Hayes, 2012) p154-9

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July 7, 2019

Universal civilization?

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 7:58 pm

From The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Samuel P. Huntington, 1996) p56-9

(more…)

Law and order is the first prerequisite of Civilization

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:11 pm

From The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Samuel P. Huntington, 1996) p318-21

(more…)

Enemies are essential

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 1:08 pm

From The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Samuel P. Huntington, 1996) p1-2

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July 4, 2019

Exuberantly nihilistic

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:20 pm

From Black Earth (Timothy Snyder, 2015) p1-2

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July 3, 2019

Counting the syringes

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:28 pm

From The Patient (Mohamed Khadra, 2009) p81-2

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The idea that Britain is a big place

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:19 pm

From Notes from a small island (Bill Bryson, 1996) p1-3

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June 21, 2019

Many millions of persons will be starved to death

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 12:24 pm

From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) p832-4

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June 19, 2019

“We’re in a Street Fight with These People”

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 12:56 pm

From The Signal and the Noise (Nate Silver, 2012) p408-11

(more…)

A moment of convulsive rage

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 11:23 am

From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) p824-6

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June 15, 2019

A typical falsification and … a dire threat

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:57 pm

From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) p778-80

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June 12, 2019

The main thing lacking has been the necessary political will.

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 11:25 am

From Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Jared Diamond, 2019) pp414-6

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June 11, 2019

They do not want to apologize

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:24 pm

From Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Jared Diamond, 2019) pp314-6

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June 10, 2019

Leftists don’t have to be radical and intransigent

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 8:26 am

From Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Jared Diamond, 2019) pp163-5

(more…)

June 9, 2019

Lessons for Australia from Finland

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 10:47 am

From Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Jared Diamond, 2019) pp87-91

(more…)

June 8, 2019

More Extremism, Less Extremism

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:33 pm

From Conformity (Cass Sunstein, 2019) pp93-4

(more…)

May 27, 2019

A suitable place for profitable operations

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 12:56 pm

From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) p664-5

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May 26, 2019

He was thinking of Churchill.

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 11:01 am

From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) p641-2

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May 12, 2019

Insisting on a world that had never existed

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 7:34 pm

From Pandora’s Lab (Paul Offitt, 2016) pp185-9

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Ill-suited to the demands of an industrial economy

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 1:19 pm

Spoken Here (Mark Abley, 2003, 2011) pp163-7

(more…)

May 11, 2019

Ecological catastrophe

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:56 pm

From Rainbow Pie (Joe Bageant, 2010 ) pp85-93

(more…)

The warning signals of annoying minorities

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:52 pm

From The Journalist and the Murderer (Janet Malcolm, 1990) pp111-2

(more…)

May 7, 2019

Seduction and betrayal

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:07 pm

From The Journalist and the Murderer (Janet Malcolm, 1990) pp3-5

(more…)

May 6, 2019

The weakness of the democratic powers

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 11:38 am

From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) p477

(more…)

The summit of his oratory

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 11:35 am

From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) pp471-2

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May 5, 2019

“This is the greatest day of my life!”

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 11:32 am

From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) pp446-8

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May 3, 2019

The nation was catching it, as if it were a virus.

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 6:44 pm

From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) pp434-5

(more…)

The proof is stronger if the people still speak an ancestral language

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 6:30 pm

From Spoken Here (Mark Abley, 2003, 2011) pp37

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May 1, 2019

The ringing cheers of the crowd

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 9:45 am

From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) pp396-9

(more…)

April 30, 2019

A shabby diplomatic trick

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:31 pm

From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) pp376-7

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April 29, 2019

Nagawicka

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 9:24 pm

From George F. Kennan: An American Life (John Lewis Gaddis, 2011) pp10,11,13

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April 28, 2019

Manipulation of empathic intuitions

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:09 pm

From Behave (Robert Sapolsky, 2018) pp632-3

(more…)

April 27, 2019

Intertwining of moral and visceral disgust

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:12 pm

From Behave (Robert Sapolsky, 2018) pp561-2

(more…)

April 24, 2019

Hierarchy, Obedience, and Resistance

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:02 pm

From Behave (Robert Sapolsky, 2018) pp475-7

(more…)

April 23, 2019

What a wonderful country.

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 11:43 am

From Neither Here Nor There (Bill Bryson, 1991) pp262-5

(more…)

April 20, 2019

Esperanto didn’t have a hope.

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 7:44 am

From Spoken Here (Mark Abley, 2004) pp88-94

(more…)

April 19, 2019

Everything costs a fortune.

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 7:50 am

From Neither Here Nor There (Bill Bryson, 1991) pp147-9

(more…)

April 17, 2019

It depends on the environment.

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 11:12 am

From Behave (Robert Sapolsky, 2018) pp253-4

(more…)

April 7, 2019

Immense feudal estates

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:55 pm

From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer, 1960, 2011) pp257-8

(more…)

Our frequent human tragedy

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 9:36 am

From Behave (Robert Sapolsky, 2018) pp69-70

(more…)

March 1, 2019

Estimating Uncertainty

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:15 pm

From The Signal and the Noise (Nate Silver, 2012) pp406-11

(more…)

January 28, 2019

A revolt of middle class hipsters

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:15 pm

From The Revolt of the Public (Martin Gurri, 2018) pp138-42

(more…)

In the dubious limbo

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 10:34 am

From Fire and Fury (Michael Wolff, 2018) pp16-8

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January 21, 2019

Doomed to extinction

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:50 pm

From The Enigmatic Mister Deakin (Judith Brett, 2017) pp120-3

(more…)

January 19, 2019

A pious empty hope

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 8:53 pm

From The Enigmatic Mister Deakin (Judith Brett, 2017)

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January 10, 2019

Bannon’s strategy of the United States.

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 10:32 am

From Fear (Bob Woodward, 2018) p196

(more…)

December 30, 2018

Test fonts

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 4:15 pm

testing

(more…)

Going viral

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 10:46 am

From Bad Advice (Paul Offitt, 2018) pp107-9

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December 23, 2018

A slow, powerful drilling through hard boards

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 2:00 pm

From Politics as a Vocation (Max Weber, 1919, Rodney Livingstone translation) p92-4

(more…)

December 11, 2018

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 5:41 pm

Hunter S. Thompson, 1972(Excerpts) (more…)

November 29, 2018

Russians exploited American gullibility

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 6:28 pm

From The Road to Unfreedom (Timothy Snyder, 2018) p244-9 (more…)

November 27, 2018

For me, the irony never quite abated

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 10:54 am

From Unaccountable (Janina Wedel, 2014) p86-7 (more…)

“Putin is not going into Ukraine, you can mark it down.”

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 7:33 am

From The Road to Unfreedom (Timothy Snyder, 2018) p212-5 (more…)

November 26, 2018

The only winner was China.

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 3:27 pm

From The Road to Unfreedom (Timothy Snyder, 2018) p196-7 (more…)

November 18, 2018

A question of the price of bread

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From How democracy Ends (David Runciman, 2018) p106-8 (more…)

November 17, 2018

Coups and zombie democracy

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From How democracy Ends (David Runciman, 2018) p44-7 (more…)

November 7, 2018

The very basis of all leftist humanism

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From Crises of the Republic (Hannah Arendt, 1972) p114-5 (more…)

November 6, 2018

The spirit of history

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From Nations and Nationalism (Ernest Gellner) p124 (more…)

But they didn’t get it

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From The Shortest History of Germany (James Hawes, 2018) p126-7 (more…)

Fordism

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From The Shortest History of Germany (James Hawes, 2018) p157 (more…)

A Prussian solution for Russia, 1887

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From The Shortest History of Germany (James Hawes, 2018) p124 (more…)

November 2, 2018

Students of myth

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From Weimar Culture (Peter Gay, 2001) pp34-5 (more…)

There was one exception: Max Weber

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From Weimar Culture (Peter Gay, 2001) pp36-7 (more…)

He thought himself a German

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From Weimar Culture (Peter Gay, 2001) pp18-21 (more…)

November 1, 2018

Jews, Junkers & Priests

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From The Shortest History of Germany (James Hawes, 2018) p110-123 (more…)

October 31, 2018

What is to be done?

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From Identity (Francis Fukuyama, 2018) p163-183

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October 29, 2018

Lords of the world

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From If This is a Man; The Truce (Primo Levi, 1979) p377 (more…)

October 27, 2018

It started in Kogarah

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From Falling Towards England (Clive James, 1985) pp102-7 (more…)

The Champion Bullock Driver

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From Australian Short Stories (Murdoch & Drake-Brockman, 1951) pp130-3 (more…)

October 19, 2018

The fear of modernity

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From Weimar Culture (Peter Gay, 2001) pp80-96 (more…)

October 16, 2018

‘On the Disadvantages of Wearing Fur’

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From The Great Extermination (A.J. Marshall, 1966) pp26-9 (more…)

October 14, 2018

Hitler’s unintentional gift

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From Snakecharmers in Texas (Clive James, 1988) ‘On the library coffee-table’ pp91-110 (more…)

September 24, 2018

The very glue of the peacetime Nazi state.

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From The Shortest History of Germany (James Hawes, 2017) pp172-3 (more…)

Unnerved by prior ownership

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From Hitching rides with Buddha (Will Ferguson, 1998) pp347-9 (more…)

September 22, 2018

A brand new kind of anti-semitism

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From The Shortest History of Germany (James Hawes, 2017) pp117-20 (more…)

September 4, 2018

A Convenient Fear

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From Factfulness (Hans Rosling, 2018) pp232-4 (more…)

August 30, 2018

Immigration: Australia’s Rag Doll

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From Speeches and Essays of Geoffrey Blainey (1991) pp229-35 (more…)

August 29, 2018

Without satellites, without an air force

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From Three Cups of Tea (Mortenson & Relin, 2006) p274 (more…)

August 20, 2018

Fear that they can ride into office

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From The Demon-haunted World (Carl Sagan, 1996) pp379-81 (more…)

August 4, 2018

‘Let us be one!’

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From Krakatoa (Simon Winchester, 2003) pp184-98 (more…)

July 28, 2018

Fear and Loathing

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From The Post-American World (Fareed Zakaria, 2008) pp250-1

America has transformed the world with its power but also with its ideals. When China’s pro-democracy protesters gathered in Tiananmen Square, they built a makeshift figure that suggested the Statue of Liberty, not an F-16. America’s image may not he as benign as Americans think, but it is, in the end, better than the alternatives. That is what has made its immense power tolerable to the world for so long.
Before it can implement any of these specific strategies, however, the United States must make a much broader adjustment. It needs to stop cowering in fear. It is fear that has created a climate of paranoia and panic in the United States and fear that has enabled our strategic missteps. Having spooked ourselves into believing that we have no option but to act fast and alone, preemptively and unilaterally, we have managed to destroy decades of international goodwill, alienate allies, and embolden enemies, while solving few of the major international problems we face. To recover its place in the world, America first has to recover its confidence.
By almost all objective measures, the United States is in a blessed position today. It faces problems, crises, and resistance, but compared with any of the massive threats of the past — Nazi Germany, Stalin’s aggression, nuclear war – the circumstances are favorable, and the world is moving our way. In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt diagnosed the real danger for the United States. ”The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” he said. “Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror.” And he was arguing against fear when America’s economic and political system was near collapse, when a quarter of the workforce was unemployed, and when fascism was on the march around the world. Somehow we have managed to spook ourselves in a time of worldwide peace and prosperity. Keeping that front and center in our minds is crucial to ensure that we do not miscalculate, misjudge, and misunderstand. America has become a nation consumed by anxiety, worried about terrorists and rogue nations, Muslims and Mexicans, foreign companies and free trade, immigrants and international organizations. The strongest nation in the history of the world now sees itself as besieged by forces beyond its control. While the Bush administration has contributed mightily to this state of affairs, it is a phenomenon that goes beyond one president. Too many Americans have been taken in by a rhetoric of fear. The 2008 presidential campaign could have provided the opportunity for a national discussion of the new world we live in. On the Republican side, it has been largely an exercise in chest-thumping hysteria. The contenders may have left the scene but their words both reflect and shape the national consciousness. “They hate you!” Rudy Giuliani repeatedly shouted on the campaign trail, relentlessly reminding audiences of the nasty people out there.

July 26, 2018

From Antigua to the United Kingdom

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From The Post-American World (Fareed Zakaria, 2008) pp236-8 (more…)

July 24, 2018

A Do-nothing Politics

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From The Post-American World (Fareed Zakaria, 2008) pp210-4 (more…)

July 21, 2018

Anti-Americanism in RoK, 1986

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From Korea (Simon Winchester, 1988, 2004) pp181-4 (more…)

July 11, 2018

Signifying modernity

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From The Post-American World (Fareed Zakaria, 2008) pp73-7 (more…)

June 29, 2018

Confucian determination

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From Korea (Simon Winchester, 1988, 2004) pp4-9 (more…)

June 26, 2018

A glimmer of hope

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From Can It Happen Here? (Cass Sunstein, Ed, 2018) pp358-60 (more…)

June 13, 2018

‘What in hell are you talking about?’

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From Death Sentence (Don Watson 2003) pp108-110 (more…)

June 12, 2018

Democracy’s core dilemma, and a critical crossroads.

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From Can It Happen Here? (Cass Sunstein, Ed, 2018) pp215-7 (more…)

May 27, 2018

You really think all Japanese have a vision of the end of the world?

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From Underground (Haruki Murakami, 2003) pp296-301 (more…)

May 20, 2018

What could they do?

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From The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William Shirer, 1960 [2011]) pp232-4 (more…)

May 12, 2018

The Gap Instinct

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From Factfulness (Hans Rosling, 2018) pp38-9 (more…)

May 7, 2018

No British superman

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From The Long Shadow (David Reynolds, 2013) pp424-5 (more…)

April 25, 2018

A special relationship

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From The Long Shadow (David Reynolds, 2013) pp274-8 (more…)

April 9, 2018

Politics does throw up hypocrites and liars

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From Death Sentence: the decay of public language (Don Watson, 2003) pp58-60 (more…)

April 6, 2018

The wrong lama was chosen

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From The River at the Centre of the World (Simon Winchester, 1996) pp400-1 (more…)

March 31, 2018

White, Black, Yellow

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From The Long Shadow (David Reynolds, 2013) pp120-2 (more…)

March 30, 2018

The Left’s Blind Spot: Moral Capital

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From The Righteous Mind (Jonathan Haidt, 2012 ) pp288-94 (more…)

March 20, 2018

Creation of a new, Pan-Asian identity

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From The River at the Centre of the World (Simon Winchester, 1996) pp309-10 (more…)

‘Good on ya, Mrs Thomas! Australia for the white man!’

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From Jessica (Bryce Courtenay, 1998) pp64-70
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March 19, 2018

They forgot that they too were white.

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From March of Folly (Barbara Tuchman, 1984) pp284-91
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The Lansdale Mission

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From The March of Folly (Barbara Tuchman, 1984) pp276
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Like fibers of a cloth absorbing a dye

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From The March of Folly (Barbara Tuchman, 1984) pp264-5
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March 17, 2018

The Price of Freedom

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From Silent Invasion (Clive Hamilton, 2018) pp277-8 (more…)

2500 years of 祖先

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From Silent Invasion (Clive Hamilton, 2018) pp258-9 (more…)

Exploiting Antarctica

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From Silent Invasion (Clive Hamilton, 2018) pp253-4 (more…)

March 15, 2018

China and Australia as one family

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From Silent Invasion (Clive Hamilton, 2018) pp235-7 (more…)

March 11, 2018

The Secret Shame

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From Dismantling the Empire (Chalmers Johnson, 2010) pp191-4 (more…)

It was all a pipedream

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From The Life and Death of Democracy (John Keane, 2009) pp832-4 (more…)

March 8, 2018

To Yichang from the far side of the planet, 1994.

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From The River at the Centre of the World (Simon Winchester, 1996) pp248-52 (more…)

March 4, 2018

中國夢

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From Silent Invasion (Clive Hamilton, 2018) (more…)

February 28, 2018

In trouble simply because he had told the truth – the lesson of Peng Dehuai.

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From The River at the Centre of the World (Simon Winchester, 1996) pp188-91 (more…)

February 27, 2018

Flipping, as we have done, between timidity and petulance.

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From Without America (QE68, Hugh White 2017) pp76-9
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February 26, 2018

Pattern of thoughtless tough talk

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From Without America (QE68, Hugh White 2017) pp52-3, 56-7
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February 22, 2018

Henry Morganthau’s plan for Germany

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From Masters and Commanders (Andrew Roberts, 2008) pp 513,525
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Turnbull plays the Trump card – “defence” to stimulate Science

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From The Demon-haunted World (Carl Sagan, 1996) pp314-7
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February 20, 2018

China, India, opium, tea & England

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From The River at the Centre of the World (Simon Winchester, 1996) pp175-9
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February 18, 2018

Babylon Berlin

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From Weimar Culture (Peter Gay, 2001) pp130-2 (more…)

The message is plain enough.

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From Weimar Culture (Peter Gay, 2001) pp80-4 (more…)

February 15, 2018

We will teach those little people a lesson

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From The River at the Centre of the World (Simon Winchester, 1996) pp 136-9
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February 13, 2018

The Chinese never have forgotten, and never will forget.

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From The River at the Centre of the World (Simon Winchester, 1996) pp128-35
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February 5, 2018

Turnbull’s Australia in the arms race?

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From Dismantling the Empire (Chalmers Johnson, 2010) p148, The Military-Industrial Man
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January 28, 2018

In the image of the West

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From On Identity (Amin Maalouf, 2000) pp58-9
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January 26, 2018

A new concept of identity

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On Identity (Amin Maalouf, 2000) pp26-31
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January 21, 2018

US history, Hollywood & the press

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From Final Cut (Steven Bach, 1985) p285-6
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January 20, 2018

Charismatic personae or mere stunts?

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From Masters and Commanders (Andrew Roberts, 2008) p398
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December 24, 2017

Dick’s Trick

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From Breach of Trust (Andrew Bacevich 2013) pp56-8
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December 17, 2017

A powerful trump

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From Pacific the ocean of the future (Simon Winchester, 2015) pp348-50
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November 30, 2017

John Keegan on War

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From Reith Lectures, 1998. (more…)

November 23, 2017

“But we keep on trying, because there’s nothing else to do.”

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From Annie Proulx’ speech for National Book Award, by Boris Kachka @ Vulture

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November 14, 2017

Fake News, Munich 1933

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Explaining Hitler (Ron Rosenbaum, 1998), The Poison Kitchen pp51-2 (more…)

November 12, 2017

ENSO

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From Pacific, the Ocean of the Future (Simon Winchester, 2015) p264-5
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November 4, 2017

Identity crisis

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Binned (more…)

October 8, 2017

Figure things out for yourself.

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On Tyranny (Timothy Snyder) p72-80


11. Investigate (more…)

September 10, 2017

卑躬屈膝

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From Breaking News (Paul Barry) p125 (more…)

August 31, 2017

Churchill and the Patria

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Finest Hour (Martin Gilbert) p910-1 (more…)

August 27, 2017

Wir werden keinen zivilen Ungehorsam tolerieren

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Civil disobedience (more…)

August 20, 2017

Child Safety

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Re Editorial, The Age 18/8/17 (more…)

August 5, 2017

ABF and Biometrics

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Nicholas Stuart writes (‘Government needs to act on our information security’, 2/8) (more…)

June 20, 2017

One unified media

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Iron Curtain (Anne Applebaum) xxiii-xxiv  (more…)

May 16, 2017

Politics of “the Me”

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One that got away 170511 (more…)

May 4, 2017

New directions for EHR?

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I haven’t detected any upswing in the current pushing citizens to MyHR. There are subtle indicators that tides (for integrated records) may be swinging in another direction. (more…)

May 2, 2017

Changes

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Have absorbed tgk21277, added Archives, Tweets

to do – default text, change colors

April 30, 2017

Clive James’ blue collar

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In his Latest Readings he has another look at John Howard & his writing. (more…)

April 29, 2017

Shabby brown

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer) p215-6 (more…)

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