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Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 April 2025 Dear friends, Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying. John Miller is the editor of UUnderworld, a freethinker magazine, for those freethinkers unconstrained by the…
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Substantial Fairness in Semantics and Strategies for the Level Playing Field
“The State needs to act as a level playing field, treating all substantive belief systems fairly“. Dr Neil Peach’s Question. First, to recap what the Level Playing Field is: ***** Semantics and Strategies for the Level Playing Field by Dr Neville Buch (MPHA, Queensland; Interdisciplinary…
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The New Carnegie classifications
The New Carnegie classifications: https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/saec/ This is the new system for American Universities: From The Chronicle: New Carnegie Classification Aims to Shake Up How Higher Ed Sees Itself, 24 April 2025: The yardstick that many colleges use to evaluate their place in the world…
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Not to Duck and Cover
From the Daily Briefing of The Chronicle of Higher Education: Duck-and-cover is over. Colleges close ranks More than a week after Harvard University galvanized higher ed by rejecting demands from the Trump administration, the sector continues to emerge from duck-and-cover mode. Well over 200 college presidents and academic leaders signed a Tuesday statement…
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Changeling Leadership
A changeling, also historically referred to as an auf or oaf, is a human-like creature found throughout much of European folklore. According to folklore, a changeling was a substitute left by a supernatural being when kidnapping a human being. Sometimes the changeling was a “stock” (a piece of wood made magically to resemble the kidnapped…
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The “Fundamental” Characteristic in the American-Australian Connection of Trumpism
Dear folks Here is an example Quora Answer. My point in sharing it is not the language or the argument itself, but a warning in the scholarship of the American-Australian relational histories and sociology, for those scholars who think that the current historiography and sociology is ‘business as usual’: What…
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Own old problems with old solutions in ‘new wineskins’
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) MICE Philosopher Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA Dr Neil Peach MICE Philosopher Management Institute for Contributory Economy PO Box 3898 South Brisbane, Q 4101 QLD 4101 AUSTRALIA 17 April 2025 Dear Neil, Following our…
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A Historian’s Future in Australia
A Historian’s Future in Australia by Drs Neil Peach, A.I., and Neville Buch Abstract: This essay addresses the potential for a specialist historian, holding a PhD with expertise in the history of cognition, local history, history of religion, and Australia/America relations, to secure employment outside traditional academic pathways. Specifically, it explores opportunities within…
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The History of Learning Humanism: What Most Humanists Miss in Cognition.
This essay has taken four books (in this order): Bakewell, Sarah (2023). Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Thinking, Enquiry and Hope, London: Chatto & Windus. Hayot, Eric (2021). Humanist Reason: A History, An Argument, A Plan, Columbia University Press. Radhakrishnan, R. (2008). History, the Human, and the World Between, Duke University…
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IN MEMORIAM, THE APRIL FOOL WHO WAS NOT, 55 YEARS, EIGHT YEARS AGO
Dear Ruth, It has been eight dead birthdays since you are past. I miss you very much. There is nothing much I can say, that has not always been said. Here is a birthday present for you. “The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot with some my favourite selections: …