There has been outrage in recent years from right-wing media about a ‘woke’ pandemic, as a politically incorrect stance from a neo-conservative framework of thought. It has many academics and ‘non-school’ scholars perplexed. It has only been recently and...
Dr Neville Buch challenges a discussion with the views of Mike Seccombe, Zachary Gorman, John Warhurst, and Nick Cater. “I never got from Menzies what I feel about listening to modern Liberals, which is a contempt for the other. It’s a really, really harsh, harsh...
I was invited to answer a Quora question, on 'facts' that I would like Americans to know. Here are my answers. Facts in chronological reverse order, all of equal importance. The Culture-History War from Prime Minister John Howard had obscured an adequate...
Free Thinker Institute (New York, NYS, USA) The Philosophy Café, Brisbane, Qld, AU Brisbane Meetup Intellectual Network (BMUIN) The Whole Concept of Community Education: Where are we Heading? Neville Buch, Ph.D., MPHA (Qld) Wednesday, April 13, 2022 We market...
You have to ask American Senator Ted Cruz, who's propaganda is he and the gun lobby defending? Do we ennoble savagery, and do we falsify civility? These are the questions for the times, and it goes to exceptionalism for personal and national conceit. Exceptionalism is...
The key words here, in President Biden's response, is ‘other countries.’ Why do American scholars struggle to get their messages across in this climate of violence? I suggest it is more than the category of religion, and it is about the way the category of...
It seems that the Southern Baptist Convention is in the news again, and news in the scandal within Hillsong Church, and the fall of Australia's first and (I cautiously predict) only Pentecostal Prime Minister. 'Megachurch and Politics' is a disaster for faith and...
NEW DAWN This morning… This is what I said to my American colleague, Garrett Lang of the Free Thinker Institute (New York, NY), who I work with on these big ideas of education, and politics. … here today, on Sunday, we have a new government. Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!! It...
All that is left In my life is to Fulfil Destiny. What is Destiny, However, Compared to Life itself, With all misery and loss, As well as the joy and gain? Life is what it is about, And Destiny will be what it will be. I will, though, work hard To make it happen....