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ON MY OLD BOSS. Jason Koutsoukis’ In like Glyn, The Monthly, November 2024
Jason Koutsoukis’ In like Glyn in The Monthly, November 2024, provides an excellent insight into the person of Professor Glyn Davis and the better politics. I worked for Professor Glyn Davis in Office of Vice-Chancellor, The University of Melbourne, during the planning and implementation of the Melbourne Model. Professor Davis is a brilliant…
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Really, Nick Cater!
Nick Cater sent a post in his “Reality Bites” series, called, “Intellectual rearmament”, with the tagline, “The British theologian who gave us the ammunition to defeat the Aboriginal Voice.” Really? You’d need ammunition to defeat the Aboriginal Voice? Your outlook on life and politics is warfare? The theologian in…
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Dr Buch’s Full Listings of Articles, Essays, Chapters, and Books
Americans Have Not Turned Against Higher Ed. Reports of the sector’s cratering popularity are mistaken, The Chronicle of Higher Education, By Kevin Carey and Sophie Nguyen October 15, 2024 Americans are losing faith in the value of college. Or so we are told. As many colleges grapple with declining enrollment and intense…
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How Entertainment Has Been Used to Keep Uneducated Persons Ignorant
In the event of Donald Trump’s “Music Town Hall” meeting in Philadelphia suburbs, we can see how Entertainment Has Been Used to Keep Uneducated Persons Ignorant. Two attendees separately had medical issues at Donald Trump’s town hall with supporters in the Philadelphia suburbs on Tuesday, the former…
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Explaining Kamala Harris’ Centrist Politics: extract from Michael Kranish’s ‘Washington Post’ article
Michael Kranish, “These five tumultuous years in Montreal shaped Kamala Harris”, The Washington Post, October 13, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT. MONTREAL — Kamala Harris was just starting her freshman year at a high school in Quebec when, as one of her classmates recalled, “all hell broke loose.” After years of…
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Change from the western Anglo-American world
You know that the western Anglo-American world is changing when this is the message from Oral Roberts University, the major site of the culture-history war since the 1970s. The change, though, has to be actualised, demonstrated, in our personal and organisational lives. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1329784185073442
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It is a Disgrace: Australian Parliament Rejection of the PM’s War and Peace Statement, But that is the Political Undoing the Cognition.
It was disgraceful and uneducated behaviour, in the Australian Parliament Rejection of the PM’s War and Peace Statement, but that is the Political undoing the Cognition. No statement is perfect. The Prime Minister’s War and Peace Statement could be criticised for minor issues, such as it does appear to be a “tick-box”…
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Dr Bandy Lee. Subtle Influence of Trumpism on Scholarly Organisations
Something illuminating to add. On The Weekend Show podcast, between 13:12:00 and 22:35:00 Dr Bandy Lee spoke on the subtle effect of Trumpism on scholarly organisations. I have attempted to create a clip but I do not have the technical skills and resources (I am not employed inside the university). But go and listen…
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A Letter to Simon: Towards a Conversation Between an Australian Monarchist and an Australian Republican
Dear Simon, Thank you for inviting me to your King’s Birthday BBQ! As Donald Horne’s key message of The Lucky Country, “Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.” We, as an Australian Monarchist and an Australian Republican, would not put ourselves in that boat of the…
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The Power Elite and American Wealth on Tuesday 5 November 2024
“Who, after all, runs America? No one runs it altogether, but in so far as any group does, the power elite.” C. Wright Mills (1959). The Sociological Imagination, Oxford University Press. p. 31. Mills’ The Power Elite thesis (1956) has sustain the length of time to the present. I have said it…