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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Manne's conservative moment?

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Most Australians would know Professor Robert Manne as a left-wing academic and political commentator. He wasn't always associated, thoug...

Left & right

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Lawrence Auster in 2003 : The left denigrates an America that is itself largely a creation of the left, believing (or at least pretending to...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

What went missing?

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Earlier this year I wrote a piece on the three great "conversations" in the Western tradition: There have been three important ...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

De Beauvoir's Disturbia

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I've been looking at the politics of Simone de Beauvoir, the French feminist who wrote an influential book The Second Sex . De Beauvoi...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

A disappointed liberal

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Not all liberals are pleased with what they have created. Clive Hamilton is a leading left-liberal thinker here in Australia. He has written...
Monday, December 22, 2008

What explains Simone de Beauvoir?

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I'm reading Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Second Sex , published in 1949. In my previous post , I briefly summarised de Beauvoir...
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Friday, December 19, 2008

What was feminism like in 1949?

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I'm just now reading The Second Sex by French feminist Simone de Beauvoir. It was published in 1949 and is considered one of a handful ...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The American image of Australian men

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Last week I reported on moves here in Victoria to discriminate against white males: DISCRIMINATION against dominant white males will soon b...
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Friday, December 12, 2008

Four conceited stories

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Here are the attitudes of four middle-class, English women to casual sex: Jo Day : "It's a myth that women can't enjoy a bri...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Herald Sun columnist: time to get rid of white men

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The hostile attitude to white men just keeps growing. Here is columnist Susie O'Brien in today's Herald Sun : THE powerful white ma...
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Friday, December 05, 2008

Imagine

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Over at I blame the patriarchy , Twisty and her friends are discussing the future post-patriarchal society. What they want is complete indiv...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Luhrmann's low act

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Why isn't this considered vilification? Consider how Baz Luhrmann portrays race relations in the early 1940s in his film Australia : Nul...
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Saturday, November 29, 2008

Why did Luhrmann make Australia?

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I wasn't exactly overjoyed when I found out that Baz Luhrmann was making an epic film set in Australia in the 1940s. When the Australian...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

In order to promote diversity in Canada .....

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Things are getting ever more Orwellian in Canada: Queens University in Kingston, ON is coming under criticism for hiring six "dialogue ...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The failure of liberal modernity: four proofs

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We live in a social order in which there is no higher good recognised, but only the individual and his desires. What is supposed to matter i...
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