Never More Relevant: Ted Kaczynski, Technology and Trauma
Henry A. Murray has much to answer for. Between 1959 and 1961, the Harvard psychology academic, as the leader of a team of equally unprincipled […]
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Convenient Villains: Kathleen Folbigg’s Miscarriage of Justice
They – being the howling press, the screeching vox populi, and anybody else wishing to weigh in – were very clear about it. Kathleen Folbigg […]
Deserving Each Other: The PGA Tour-LIV Golf Merger
Described as acrimonious, divisive and disruptive to golf, the LIV Golf Tournament, launched with the aid of former world number one Greg Norman and an […]
Whither Constitutional Change?
Within a very short space of time, we are going to be embroiled in a national discussion on constitutional change: namely, we are going to […]
Ticketing Woes: The Patchy Record of Myki
What is it about government contracts that produces the worst results and poorest returns? Those clods behind such deals, notably in the poison chaliced field […]
Meta and Privacy: The Economy of Data Transgressions
Meta, to put it rather inelegantly, has a data non-compliance problem. That problem began in the original conception of Facebook, a social network conceived by […]
HAK Birthdays: Henry Kissinger Turns 100
“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands.” Anthony Bourdain, A Cook’s Tour (2002) […]
Global Citizen Announces ‘Power Our Planet: Live in Paris’
A free, ticketed event featuring performances from Lenny Kravitz, Billie Eilish, H.E.R., Jon Batiste, with special guests Ben Harper, FINNEAS, and Mosimann on June 22, […]
Ritorno sulla scena del crimine – an anniversary retrospective
By frances goold In light of recent conversations about ‘art monsters’, ‘fallen idols’, and nasty geniuses, and the recent release of Brooke Shields’ two-part […]
Imperial Protectionism: US Foreign Policy for the Middle Class
What does a “foreign policy for the middle class” of the United States entail? President Joe Biden’s national security adviser is rather vague about this. […]
Fighting White Elephants: The Tasmanian AFL Stadium Protest
Every now and then, the sharpened, dedicated means of halting a monstrous white elephant before its birth can work. The wise suddenly seem in charge, […]
The US Supreme Court Corruption Bonanza
When ProPublica’s investigation into links between Republican donor Harlan Crow and the US Supreme Court surfaced, there was a sense that dark waters lurked beneath […]
YouGov Survey Shows Strong Support for Australian Republic to be Entirely Secular
The Secular Association of NSW Media Release In a survey commissioned by the Secular Association of NSW and carried out on 26 April 2023, YouGov […]
Geoffrey Hinton, AI, and Google’s Ethics Problem
Talk about the dangers of artificial intelligence, actual or imagined, has become feverish, much of it induced by the growing world of generative chat bots. […]
A Certain Form of Thieving: The US Banksters Strike Again
It looks like 2008 all over again. Economic and financial mismanagement feature in scorching, consuming brilliance. The culpable, bungling banksters, have returned with their customary, […]