This week, the Trump American administration announced that it would be laying off more than 1,300 employees at the U.S. Department of Education, which administers billions of dollars in federal funding for thousands of school districts, as part...
American-Australian Relational History
The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors
The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors Trump’s Pressures on US Universities: Lessons for Australia 14 March 2025 The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors PDF copy....
The scramble after the storm…
The War against North-East United States Education. From The Chronicle of Higher Education (Daily Briefing: Columbia's crises contagion, email, 11 March 2025, 20:30). Australians be warn, this could come our way without intellectual and socio-political...
Trumpianism is an attack on global and humanistic education.
"The Trump administration said Friday it was cutting off about $400 million in federal contracts and grants to Columbia University, saying the school has failed to protect Jewish students from antisemitism on campus." (The Washington Post, Updated March 7, 2025 at...
Buckley’s Up With Liberalism Mind-Twister
"Liberalism is the refuge favored by intellectual cowardice, because the essence of the liberal’s position is that he has no position." The quote is Buckley's Up With Liberalism Mind-Twister. It is one of the great political falsehoods of the late...
Misunderstanding Critics in Education
Don't misunderstand my criticism of the "Department of Education" but take my criticism and theoretical-practical solutions seriously. Otherwise the "Trumpers" will change policy in a worse way. It is happening in the United States, as we all should...
Thinking in the Political Landscape
After decades of writing in applied history, sociology, philosophy, religion, and ethos-spirituality, I come to realise that the barrier for the general population in understanding is not understanding the cognition sociology and histories. In the past...
The nature of the American education system or arrogant culturalised personalities?
I have so far gathered 183 pages of testimonies from the Quora platform on The Ugly American. Question: The nature of the American education system or arrogant culturalised personalities? Maybe both! Example. A report from a...
Heralding a spiral point on the forward historiographical frame, from the past trajectory of 1925-1929
Calvin Coolidge was the American President (1923-1929), and although Donald Trump (2017-2020; 2025-) models himself and his expansionist policies on William McKinley (1897-1901), Trump's economic policies is aligned to Coolidge's small...