Our Enemy, The State
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It was important for someone to write this instant history under time pressure, an accessible work of record, lest we forget. Or rather, lest they be allowed to... Read more.
As the US De-racializes, Australia Moves to Re-racialize the Constitution
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Permanently codifying racial grievance into the Constitution will guarantee it is weaponised sometime in the not too distant future by activists making increasingly... Read more.
Affirmative Action Entrenches Division and Bigotry
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Every affirmative action produces an equal and opposite sectarian reaction. If a government frames public policy in a group-conscious way, it cannot expect groups... Read more.
A Look Back from Canadian Wildfires to Australian Bushfires and Floods
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Reports and videos of the smoke and haze from the intense wildfires enveloping Canada and drifting down south into the US bring back vivid memories of Australia’s... Read more.
Kennedy, DeSantis and a Covid Reckoning Election
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The political implications of DeSantis and Kennedy’s successful challenge against the establishment narrative on all things Covid would reverberate in many other... Read more.
Blaming Victims for Failures of Government
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All these incidents of victim bashing and blame shifting responsibility for the failures of the core functions of government are symptoms of social anomie and dystopian... Read more.
The Fraying of the Liberal International Order
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To no one’s surprise, the rising and revisionist powers wish to redesign the international governance institutions to inject their own interests, governing philosophies,... Read more.
Media Complicity in Policing the Opinion Corridor
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Among the many startling aspects of the topsy-turvy world that we have lived through since early 2020 is the extent to which the media and social media, often with... Read more.
WHO to Govern the Health of the World?
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This is the stuff of bureaucrats’ dreams: the legal authority to declare an emergency and the power thereafter to commandeer resources for oneself from sovereign... Read more.
Ukraine as a Proxy War: Conflicts, Issues, Parties, and Outcomes
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In a very real sense, Ukraine’s territory is the battleground for a proxy war between Russia and the West that reflects the unsettled questions since the end of... Read more.
My Transition from Nuclear to Covid
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The case for nuclear weapons rests on a superstitious belief of magical Realism in the utility of the bomb and the theory of deterrence. The extreme destructiveness... Read more.
What Is a Safety Signal and Why Does It Matter?
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The authorities intentionally conflated the common public understanding with the technical precision of the medical specialists in insisting that serious side effects... Read more.