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...
Neville Buch
Why both the two majority Australian political parties get it wrong, and why Australia is following the United States into ‘Higher Education’ idiocy
"Higher education has a culture of unhappiness: Professors in low-demand fields — feeling like we have no options — often practice resignation rather than pursue opportunities that might suit us better. Academe systematically convinces extraordinarily talented people...
Populist Nationalism Will Not Deliver; We have been Here Before, many times…
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...
Controlling Employment-Job Contracts
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Catherine Fremlin <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 at 17:15 Subject: FW: The Failure of Machine Thinking. Screenshot 2024-07-11. Sydney University Stopping Australian Citizens get a job To:...
Middletown. If you really want to understand, instead of the political propaganda bullshit
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...
Why are Vice-Chancellors putting up with it?
"Between 2010 and 2019, UK universities paid more than £1bn in journal subscriptions and other publishing charges. More than 90% of these fees went to the big five commercial publishers (UCL and Manchester shelled out over £4m each). It’s worth remembering that the...
The Work of Dzavid Haveric for Queensland History
Dr Dzavid Haveric of Charles Sturt University is the leading historian in the story of Muslim-Australian experiences. He has also published about an Islamic leader, sometime ago, in Queensland history, who was a philosopher. His work covers those experiences of...
Happy Birthday. From Those Who Understand Accountability! The Youngest Daughter’s Gift.
Today, is my birthday, my 63rd birthday. The second of a three post series. My youngest daughter gave the following birthday present: Kurt Almqvist and Mattias Hesserus (2022; editors). Knowledge and information: The Potential and Peril of...
Happy Birthday. From Those Who Understand Accountability! The Oldest Daughter’s Gift.
Today, is my birthday, my 63rd birthday. The third and final of a three post series. My oldest daughter gave the following birthday present: some money and six cup cakes delivered to the door Our family has been very good at...