Commentary on Australian and world events from a socialist and democratic viewpoint
How Hegsethian heroes destroyed themselves and their entire civilisation I haven’t yet seen the Odyssey film[1], but reviews mention a minor obsession of mine, the Late Bronze Age collapse and the ensuing Greek Dark Age. I first encountered this at the end of Ken McLeod’s Intrusion where the character Geena compares modern nihilists to the mysterious “city [ ]
Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow [ ]
Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow [ ]
Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow [ ]
My son Daniel points me to a piece by Nate Silver which announces the discovery that highly educated workers with low or precarious income are the natural constituency of the Democratic Socialists of America. We’ve been over this at length here and at Crooked Timber, starting as far back as 2012 (and it wasn’t new [ ]
As I observed last year, the statement that “The cemeteries are full of indispensable people.” is just as true of nations, and in particular the US. That was a little controversial at the time, but now it’s become sufficiently conventional wisdom to be restated in the New York Times. I’ve been working on an update. [ ]
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow [ ]
Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow [ ]
Some brief notes written in response to a request from the Parliamentary Select Committee on Intergenerational Housing Inequity) Class not cohort The current crisis reflects the interaction between three main forces * Changes in the life course meaning that most major stages of life are reached later than in the past. These include completion of [ ]