# melbourne international (blogs) — RSS Amplifier

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## [The late Jason Arday: Gulliver among the Lilliputians?](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/the-late-jason-arday-gulliver-among)

_2026-08-22 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_

And other highlights of my week

## [Academia: from inefficient effectiveness to efficient ineffectiveness](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/academia-from-inefficient-effectiveness)

_2026-08-16 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_

The great failure of university reform wasn’t intensifying competition, but gormlessly ignoring the prior question: what institutions and public goods govern what competitive success looks like?

## [Defending the West](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/defending-the-west)

_2026-08-15 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_

And other highlights of my suburban week

## [Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). Full guide](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/melbourne-international-film-festival-e4d)

_2026-08-12 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_

ChatGPT's sleuthing of independent reviews for your guidance

## [The public goods we couldn’t imagine](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/melbourne-international-film-festival-716)

_2026-08-12 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_

All ChatGPT knows and all ye need to know

## [Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) guide](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/melbourne-international-film-festival)

_2026-08-11 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_

ChatGPT's sleuthing of independent reviews for your guidance

## [Monoculturalism anyone?](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/monoculturalism-anyone)

_2026-08-08 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_

And many other things encountered along the way

## [Social fabric: The Price of What Survives](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/social-fabric-the-price-of-what-survives)

_2026-08-02 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_

Some reflections on the social fabric (which we've taken to calling 'social capital')

## [On becoming less full of shit](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/on-becoming-less-full-of-shit)

_2026-08-01 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_

And other fine things I discovered on the net recently

## [Synthetic (AI) generated towns](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/synthetic-ai-generated-towns)

_2026-07-26 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_

Starting with this article I got intrigued and infuriated in equal measure because the journalism didn’t explain what was going on.

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_2026-07-26 · **Sponsored**_

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## [Rearranging the deckchairs on HMS Unserious](https://nicholasgruen.substack.com/p/rearranging-the-deckchairs-on-hms)

_2026-07-25 · Nicholas Gruen · Nicholas Gruen_

And other things - not just the new British PM