Just Another (Almost) Routine Mental Health Crisis
Prelude: Lento It's after midnight and the other members of the household are either asleep or pursuing their own consolations in the silence of their...
King Kong
http://youtu.be/nuIiqKytvnU I saw a preview tonight. Incredible, fabulous stuff. Go if you can.
The Humbug Martyrdom of Andrew Bolt II
Interlude: Ruminations on 'the costs of speech', monkeys and Dexter In The 2013 PEN Free Voices lecture, reproduced on the ABC's Religion and Ethics web site,...
The rise in Mental Health Problems: a puzzle
Here’s a true modern puzzle for you: why is the rate of mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, and obesity, increasing in the US, Australia,...
Envy Attack!
Simply Delightful: Conservative billionaire Gina Rinehart called for the sterilization of the poor today, arguing that the only way to alleviate poverty is to stop...
What to ask the PM?
Stepping out in her new role for the Guardian, Katharine Murphy contacted me and asked me for an economic question to put to the PM. It was...
Sam Roggeveen on Martin Wolf on climate change: how depressed should we be, and what can be done – Part One
Cross posted from the Lowy Interpreter Blog.* I was contemplating writing a post on Martin Wolf's latest Jeremiad on climate change when Sam Roggeveen sent me a...