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The US Election and the End of the Media Monoculture

November 4, 2024 - 20:51 -- Admin

There’s a strong gerontocratic tinge to US politics of late  — the youngest of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren and Mitch McConnel is Chuck at 73. 

Many a theory has been propounded to explain this phenomenon, but a simple one shall be put to the test in a couple of days: Trump is the last of the political candidates borne of the media monoculture and so Trump will win the election comfortably. 

Global heating heresy?

November 3, 2024 - 17:57 -- Admin

 

As I argued in a recent article, the election of Donald Trump as President would be disastrous for climate change compared with the current Democrat administration of President Biden. The situation is quite different in Australia. The election of a Coalition government federally next year, even under Peter Dutton, would not be all that much worse than the situation under the current Labor administration of Anthony Albanese.

Get The Great Housing Hijack Into Your Brain

October 31, 2024 - 22:49 -- Admin

Cameron Murray’s The Great Housing Hijack is self-recommending. You certainly don’t need a review of any sort to tell you to go read it if you have any interest in the peculiar case of the housing market. Nevertheless, here I supply my own review of sorts and extrapolate on what I consider a couple of Murray’s core points.

The Great Housing Hijack in Miniature

New clobber

October 31, 2024 - 08:43 -- Admin

As you can see we’ve adopted a new WordPress theme.  Many thanks to our web guru Tony Sarhanis.  What do you think?  I really like it, although I have one reservation.You can’t scroll down the main posts column until the cursor gets to the bottom of the comments column. I suspect that’s a deliberate feature rather than a bug, because it forces the eye to look at the comments first.

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