Put your hands in the air
And things that didn’t go viral this week
Culture
Nicholas Gruen.
Weekend readings on political rhetoric, free speech, and public discourse.
Recent essays
30 of 58The Odyssey: the last word
And some other great things I found this week
Greek Film Festival 2026: a Melbourne viewing guide
In the same way I produced a guide to the Melbourne International Film Festival, here is a guide to the Greek Film Festival in Melbourne.
Paul Keating as Lennon to Bob Hawke’s McCartney
And other things that coursed through my mind this week …
The late Jason Arday: Gulliver among the Lilliputians?
And other highlights of my week
Academia: from inefficient effectiveness to efficient ineffectiveness
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
And other highlights of my suburban week
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). Full guide
ChatGPT's sleuthing of independent reviews for your guidance
The public goods we couldn’t imagine
All ChatGPT knows and all ye need to know
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) guide
ChatGPT's sleuthing of independent reviews for your guidance
Monoculturalism anyone?
And many other things encountered along the way
Social fabric: The Price of What Survives
Some reflections on the social fabric (which we've taken to calling 'social capital')
On becoming less full of shit
And other fine things I discovered on the net recently
Synthetic (AI) generated towns
Starting with this article I got intrigued and infuriated in equal measure because the journalism didn’t explain what was going on.
Rearranging the deckchairs on HMS Unserious
And other things - not just the new British PM
Is Rogernomics the answer? Yes and no
Special additional Sunday edition for
The Boaty McBoatface factor: Irony to the rescue
How Count Binface changes everything … (Maybe)
Your life: Load bearing: or bear loading?
And all your other conundrums of the week: SOLVED!
Winter among the miracles: and the rent-seekers
And other things I reckon are worth your time this week
Palestine as ideological superstorm
And other things I encountered through the week
Kill me now edition
And other things I discovered this week on my travels
Hobart Stadium to cost $1.5 billion and counting
But you probably expected that
Swapping trenches in the gender wars
And other items of interest this week
Are nicer LLMs less truthful? (Hint: yes)
And other things that turned up while I was away
Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once
And other things I learned while travelling in the Old Country (my excuse for being late).
Working class + Plutocrats => Fascism
And other equations you'll want to know about …
Blogging the 2008 crisis
The first of many out from the Club Troppo vault
Terrorists 3: Rational self-interest: 0
And other things that require your attention this weekend
Should we have called fascism 'gangsterism'?
And other things I wouldn't have included if you didn't absolutely NEED to know.
Utopianism or bust! How about neither?
And other things you simply MUST read