The way we are and the way we want to be

Fear and freedom when modernity fails.

The Apocalyptic Strain in Popular Culture: The American Nightmare Becomes the American Dream | by Paul A. Cantor | The Hedgehog Review: Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 2013)

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The Abbott you think you know

Tony Abbott

The Tony Abbott we don’t know

Conventional wisdom no sure guide on Abbott.

By Gerard McManus*

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Kevin Rudd’s record as PM speaks for itself

“Leadership requires more than an unusually elevated dose of political vitamins: it requires a disciplined intellectual framework that can shape an understanding of the past, underpin mastery of the present and guide the search to enlarge the future.”

By Henry Ergas | The Australian | July 13, 2013

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After Egypt

“Americans who want to conduct a great experiment in democracy will have to take their laboratory somewhere else.”

Dismiss the Egyptian People and Elect a New One | by David P. Goldman | PJ Media | July 4, 2013

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Kevin Rudd and The People

Australians still unconsciously ‘dips their lid’ to a ‘guvna’.

By David Kehoe

Kevin Rudd’s return to the prime ministership raises again the question of why he is so popular with a significant section of Labor and swinging voters.

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