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The marshmallow at the end of the universe

Nicholas Gruen
May 24, 2025June 6, 2025
Psychology Professor Michael Inzlicht has a confession to make. He’s been peddling shoddy wares – his words. And he's feeling quite bad about the whole...
Trade rips nobody off: A Trump-era history of recent Australian trade policy
Economics and public policy History Politics - international Politics - national

Trade rips nobody off: A Trump-era history of recent Australian trade policy

David Walker
April 5, 2025May 13, 2025
Donald Trump is still  trying to slash his nation's trade deficit. Australians may recognise this task: we tackled it in the late 1980s, failed, and...
Bargains Cultural Critique Gender History Race and indigenous Review Space

Is the cultural revolution on gender, race and sexual orientation at risk?

Nicholas Gruen
January 28, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW_IPF2GSpw As part of a new policy, I'm going to post stuff I've published on my substack here where it's substantial enough, or where I...
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Vale David Tiley

Ken Parish
October 29, 2024October 30, 2024
David Tiley was one of the early generation of bloggers in Australia, starting in 2003, approximately the same time as I started. I first met...
Health History Medical Personal Uncategorized

Returning to blogging at Troppo

Ken Parish
October 8, 2024October 29, 2024
As longstanding readers will know, I was one of the founders of Troppo along with Nicholas Gruen and several others including Mark Bahnisch and Don...
History Media Philosophy Political theory Politics - international

Escape from planet sensible: Stunning listening

Nicholas Gruen
June 8, 2024June 9, 2024
Adolf never had much time for planet sensible. Here he is after the Reichstag fire with fellow traveller Sefton Delmer who was Berlin correspondent for...
History Philosophy Political theory

The world of bullshit we’ve built: Reflections on a scene from Utopia

Nicholas Gruen
March 3, 2024March 6, 2024
https://youtube.com/shorts/_XXLgZ8rYew?si=i8EWpLRcHJ3-rpjF I recently took my son to the stage play of Yes, Prime Minister.  … The decades have made a huge difference in the sensibility of...

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