Featured Image: Marketoonist, Tom Fishburne. Paid. 240122.highres.focused. Order #27607 (January 22, 2024). Big Ideas and Political Distractions in Public Discourse. Think About It For example, here are a few places of public discourse where big ideas are...
Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi makes claims of “dogmatic affirmation of diversity as a sacred value by an equally one-sided assertion of homogeneity”. It is ‘culture-history warfare’ dribble. He has selectively used Garsten (2017) on the case of the French...
Let me be straight up, so as not to be confused on my clear and intelligent point. I do not expect fiction to be any closer to accuracy than what it is, fiction. It is rather an issue of the antiquarian, and what that truly means. Antiquarianism, according to the...
Image: Marketoonist 240115.highres.ideakillers. Licensed paid. Marketoonist is a cartoon provider on marketing issues. Tom Fishburne is usually highly critical of current marketing practice. I support his conclusions and his work, and pay for the license to use...
It may come as a surprise to some, that I read closely blogs and articles of scholars, who I believe, miss key or main points in their argument, whether from Left or Right. Open scholarship goes to the work I do as a philosopher and historian, and as a...
Dear friends, This is my message at the end of the 2023 commemoration season for Queensland and Brisbane, and speaks for work of the Southern Brisbane Suburban Forum Inc., in 2024, 2025, and so forth. In 2022 the Forum had an important...
A response to Justine Toh’s, “Work has conquered every day of the week. How do we remain human in a world that worships toil?” The Guardian, Monday 20 November 2023, online. I find these days with journalism, the semantics is so much more unclear,...
Dear friends, Educational theories from unusual places, an e-newspaper in Los Angeles, discussing housing and homeless policies. Text below. The messaging follows the email I just sent to the Mayor, Deputy Premier, and the...
By Neville Buch, Ph.D., MPHA Third Paper, Exploratory, Version for 2023 Sydney TASA Conference Slide 1. Introduction In preparing the publication and presentation papers for the Sydney TASA Conference, at the end of November 2023, this is a third paper,...