Intellectual History

The Worse Parliamentary Process

The Worse Parliamentary Process

This is the worse parliamentary process undertaken, globally, in my living memory, and although I am not the expert historian, I do not recall in history anything I have read – if so, please tell me.       The former U.S. parliamentary speaker, Kevin...

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Re-Thinking Australian-American Paradigms

Re-Thinking Australian-American Paradigms

Without doubt, Allan Megill is the best intellectual historian in the United States. His paradigm on what constitutes historical knowledge, and what constitutes historical error, is the framing for my multidisciplinary work. There are three American scholars, who have...

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2023-2025 NDB Book Project Priorities

2023-2025 NDB Book Project Priorities

In 2021, I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2021-2023. I had started this strategy in 2018, when I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2018-2020. The gap year of 2020 in book planning was a reset from...

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RESEARCH NOTE: ANGLO-AMERICAN MAJOR BELIEF-DOUBT SYSTEMS

RESEARCH NOTE: ANGLO-AMERICAN MAJOR BELIEF-DOUBT SYSTEMS

      This is a research note to preserve copyright and notice to this new and substantive thesis of the Anglo-American major belief-doubt systems, since the seventeenth century, which at the end of that century expanded, and transformed, the power of...

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Dear Nick…

Dear Nick…

Dear Nick,   I am writing a short letter after skimming your Sky News piece, “Peter Dutton is steering the Voice 'No' campaign to victory over cancel culture by refusing to play the role of a troglodyte conservative”. I make only a sincere plea to stop fuelling...

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