Two summary pieces of HART and SWPR on masks
Since I learned in April 2020 that transmission of covid was mainly via extremely small aerosols, I have regarded face masks as a placebo: they...
Midnight’s Library
[caption id="attachment_35167" align="alignright" width="345"] The graphic from the nifty NYT review. [/caption] On the strength of nothing more than the fact that it's Audible's free...
On censorship in Australia and elsewhere
What do you do as an Australian parliament when a foreign company censors mainstream media content in Australia, undermining free speech? Do you organise an...
Lockdowns and liberty
This short post grew out of a response to Paul Frijters on another thread. Naturally enough, those who don't want to lockdown are telling us...
Introducing! The podcast reader
I thought you’d like to know of a venture I’m on the board of which is a global monthly magazine being published out of Melbourne...
Guest post from John Burnheim
John sent me the text below in response to reading my essay on John Macmurray. As you may know he trained as a priest and...
Sex and war in Afghanistan
I visited Afghanistan only once, on a brief visit in 2014. I fell off a donkey to great hilarity of the local villagers, slept in...