I am a controversial professional scholar who does not "bets on Substack," but has been an extensive user of social media, for several decades, for my post-university scholarship work. I do not have "right-wing links to sustain scholarship after exiting formal"...
There are confused thinking on politics today in the United States and Australia. Recently, a critic wrote as an attack on my Australian sharing, of an American interview, of a noted American historian on Trumpism. This social media person wrote:...
Jessica Gavora, in The Atlantic (July 25, 2024, 7:31 AM ET) wrote: I thought of Dad last week, when the Republican vice-presidential nominee, J. D. Vance, said something that profoundly misjudged and disrespected his memory. “America is not...
Recently, June 2024, I participated in an online workshop on Conservative Public History international forum. It revealed that, what we are experiencing in Australia, is the same across the planet: “Across the world right-wing popular political movements are...
J.D. Vance's hometown, Middletown, Ohio, if you want to really understand...(from Wikipedia) Middletown studies were sociological case studies of the white residents of the city of Muncie in Indiana initially conducted by Robert Staughton...
"In red states there is a movement to dumb the public. It starts in the educational realm where critical thinking is not simply not taught, it is actively discouraged. If history teach the rest of us that it can repeat itself then citizens of red states are not...
Dear Friends, and I thank Graham Perrett's office for its recent kind support, and several friends who made sure I have not gone under, I said it, now the NYT is reporting it May 19, 2024: Gift Article (I paid for it, the least you can do is read)...
Dear friends, Today, at a BBQ, a young woman suggested that the edifices of peace in the middle east be forbade, due to her reading of biblical history. When I challenged her on an alternative -- postmillennial -- reading, she clammed up. So I let her know of...
This is how intelligent and sensible politics is done. "In return, the university will form an advisory committee made up of student, faculty, and staff members to 'provide a conduit to engagement' with its investment committee; answer questions “to the...