A nice
A-Ha parody video.
A campaign to have the right
to marry cartoon characters.
A new blog by two ANU academies
on mainland SE Asia.
Arguing pro and con
for a league of democracies.
Camille Paglia’s collection of poetry made it onto the US best-seller lists: she
writes about poetry.
Reviewing a book
on the new forms of anti-Semitism.
On the importance of moral arguments in public debate.
Details of a book published by a retired academic of Polish background
on Stalin, Stalinism and the human costs thereof. Defining
different forms of socialism: (the claim that Nazism had no elements of socialism is a little over-stated).
The Beijing regime
cracks down on dissent in Tibet.
Author
Michael Crichton dies. Appreciating work and
his unusual life. Appreciating his
fun with ideas.
Chinese official
sacked for molesting a girl after public pressure.
Reviewing a book which critiques humanitarian aid and its organizations
as spreaders of Western values and being complicit in Western interventions.