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...
Neville Buch
The Problem of Australian Sandstones Universities
Dear UQ Vice-Chancellor, This is the statistic you need to understand: University of Oxford, United Kingdom, No. of FTE Students: 22,095; No. student per staff 10.8; International Students 43%; Female-Male Ratio 51 : 49....
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...
ART in Helene
From Drew Goins, “An act of God — and one of Satan? — in North Carolina,” The Washington Post, October 4, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. EDT If you want to see what the American Revivalist Tradition (ART) looks like in American politics, in 2024, this...
Announcement: Cognition Histories and Sociology Book
After the failure to find a publisher to support the publication of “the Intellectual (Hidden) History of Queensland”. I am moving onto a new major book project, coordinated with the other informally contracted book project: 1) on Humanism; 2) on...
Weeping Tears of Joy and Sadness: Calling Local Politicians to Accountability
Watching the video of Boundary Road Rail Level Crossing Flythrough October 2022, I wept. Jesus Wept (John 11:35). It is weeping of joy and sadness. Joy because, finally, a beautiful solution has been reached in the Boundary Road Rail Level...
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...
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...
Rudolf Steiner’s Goethe: The Better Part of Thinking for the 21st Century
"thinking…is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas." Rudolf Steiner (1883), Goethean Science, GA1. The Goethe-Steiner multi-layered...