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An Open Letter to Drew and Others Subject to Today’s Nonsense Political Rhetoric
27 July 2026 Dear Drew, These Marxist groups have thrown out the idea of a working class revolution and substituted for it a revolution to eliminate “white, colonial heteronormativity”. I thought they were wrong with their working class revolution but they are absolutely ridiculous with its replacement. I am enjoying the delicious irony, if only…
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Teaching Documentation: Understanding History is Philosophy in Practice – ISCHE 47
Featured Image: CIAE Diploma of Teaching Graduates of late 1970s. Dave Jack and Denis Sheehan with Queensland historian, the late Dr Jack Ford, in the centre of the image.
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Australian Take on the Scandal of the Evangelical Mind: The Scandal of the Mechanized Mind
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay examines Mark Noll’s retrospective judgment on the thirty-year legacy of his seminal work, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994), through the critical lens of Dr. Neville Buch’s research into evangelical historiography and the sociology of religion. While Noll observes a “brighter” picture in the sheer volume of Christian academic output in the twenty-first century,…
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Philosophy Today: New York Times, 6 July 2026
MORNING READ Black-and-white head shots of David Chalmers, Dillon Plunkett, Rosie Campbell and Robert Long. Aaron Wojack for The New York Times (top left); Ian C. Bates for The New York Times Call it the revenge of the philosophy majors: With the rise of artificial intelligence, cutting-edge labs like Anthropic and DeepMind are hiring experts…
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Review of The American Crisis: Denoetization and the American Mirror. A MICE Review
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This review assesses The American Crisis by the writers of The Atlantic from the perspective of the Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE). While the anthology provides an urgent diagnosis of a country in chaos, characterizing the “Age of Trump” as a radical departure from constitutional norms, this Australian assessment argues that the work’s primary…
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Re: Research Note: The Need to Support MICE. Weekly Newsletter – Mon, 01 Jun, 2026 | Dr Neville Buch
1 June 2026 Dear Michael, Nearly half of the year has passed. I am still not receiving any feedback, other than from you and Neil. I am not yet ready to pack up my bags and find a new home. But the warning signs are on the horizon. ‘One Nation’ now the most popular party in…
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Learning foundations for my Curriculum Packages: History and Historiography
Dear friends, Here are the learning foundations for my Curriculum Packages. Abstract This essay explores the vices and virtues of history as a philosophical and social practice, characterizing the discipline not merely as a chronicle of dates but as a “site of conscience” and a laboratory for understanding human existence. Drawing on the socio-intellectual frameworks…
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The Ordinary Person. Between Social Stability and Symbolic Misery
24 April 2026 Dear Friends, An invitation to think Abstract The concept of “Ordinary People” functions as a primary site of tension within modern sociological and ethical frameworks. Defined as the realm of the common, frequent, and every day, the “ordinary” provides a vital sense of communal stability, secular prosperity, and a grounded human point…
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Myth, Morality, and the Republic of Heaven
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The literary and ideological clash between C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman serves as a primary site for Dr. Neville Buch’s application of Spiral Historiography and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC). While Pullman characterizes the Chronicles of Narnia as “poisonous” religious propaganda, Dr. Buch provides a synoptic evaluation that moves…
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Hedging on Christian Nationalism: A Critique of Noetic Regression
Dr Neville Buch Abstract Nick Spencer’s article, “Christian Nationalism,” provides a valuable taxonomy of a burgeoning global phenomenon, yet from the perspective of Dr. Neville Buch’s Matrix of Sociology and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC), it ultimately “hedges” by failing to diagnose the movement as a profound state of denoetization and Passive Nihilism. While…