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Category: American-Australian Relational History
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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 twentieth century. William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008) is best known for founding…
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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 know: “DOGE probe, which began last week, is a prelude to a more dramatic effort…
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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 few years, I have been writing on this topic. In August 2023 I published an article entitled,…
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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 British Merchant Navy radio officer in the days of Morse code and thermionic…
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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 government and “leave the market to itself” policies (added with highly controversial 1890 McKinley Tariff). Coolidge’s critics…
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Walter Johnson – On Racial Capitalism
Racial capitalism is a concept reframing the history of capitalism as grounded in the extraction of social and economic value from people of marginalized racial identities, typically from black people. It was described by Cedric J. Robinson in his book Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, published in…
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Anticipation of a better locally-regionally world, globally conceived
Dear friends, Please read carefully, and act accordingly, with diligence and kindness. The future is always uncertain. But today it is possibly more unpredictable than ever. For the Iai’s World Philosophy Day 2024, we asked leading thinkers how philosophy can help us navigate this unknown, but you have to pay for a subscription to read the article, and you are economically forced…
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Free Thinker Institute (FTI) Stoa: Aligning Judgment with Virtue (HYBRID)
Dear Neil and Michael, In line with the problem of the false economy and the failures of humanities and social science education in Australia. Here is the Free Thinker Institute, New York, meeting today. Garrett Lang introduced the Freethinker Institute and its focus on personal growth through stoicism, highlighting the regular free events…
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Cognition Histories and Sociology in The United States. No. 1
From a voice on Quora: In defense of Americans, if they want to see mountains, they have mountains. If they want to see a lake, or the ocean, or the desert, or a tropical island, or even the arctic? They have all of it. All without having to convert currency or…
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Conversations with, and Between, Queensland Elites
Dear friends, Thoughts? A wealthy school could afford to improve the teaching strategy, the same curriculum, by retro-technology. But in the United States there has been thinking on meritocracy for nearly a century, and, indeed, the reform of meritocracy. What do you think? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/meritocracy-college-admissions-social-economic-segregation/680392/?gift=dpNmmIb8s6tgeaq0wQsEo0G3TC2YmQmhgvxg_L-CK_Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share Thoughts? A wealthy school could afford…