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Trump’s ‘art of the deal’ trumps ‘the science’

Donald Trump Flat White John Stuart Mill Karl Popper Opinion Scientific Method Spectator Australia

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Politicians must permit Australians to speak up

10 February 2024

ABC News Anthony Albanese Barnaby Joyce David Littleproud Flat White Jacinta Nampijinpa Price John Stuart Mill Reckless Renewables Rally Spectator Australia

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Whither journalism for the common people?

12 November 2023

Edmund Burke Flat White Fraser Nelson James Buchanan John Stuart Mill journalism Leigh Hunt Meredith Townsend Robert Stephen Rintoul The Examiner The Spectator Thomas Carlyle Thornton Leigh Hunt

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A Grassroots Revival of Conservative Politics

10 January 2023

Conservatism Edmund Burke GST Reform Home Ownership John Howard John Locke John Stuart Mill Liberal Party Long March Nuclear Energy Peter Costello Peter Dutton The Spectator Thomas Hobbes

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Would you fight the next war in a conventional submarine?

25 November 2022

AUKUS Emmanuel Macron Family History Geopolitics John Stuart Mill Laura Tingle Military national security Nuclear Submarines

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Freedom of Speech: What gives us the right?

21 November 2022

33rd Infantry Battalion AIF ANZAC Australian Army Ernest Bramwell Percy Freedom of Speech Great War John Stuart Mill Liberty Political Rights Reflection Self-Reliance Villers-Bretonneux

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The Wit and Wisdom of Desmond Tutu

02 September 2018

African Philosophy Book Notes Desmond Tutu Epictetus George Santayana Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill Marcus Aurelius Ubuntu

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Beyond Good and Evil: or, Breathing is a Virtue

08 February 2018

Adolf de Meyer Alan Watts Benjamin Franklin Book Notes Claude Debussy Friedrich Nietzsche John Stuart Mill Morti Jerome Adler Stéphane Mallarmé Stoicism Utilitarianism Virtues

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The Art of Reading: Great Books and the Liberal Ideal

13 January 2018

Aristotle Book Notes Charles Van Doren Erasmus G. Addlepate Great Books John Stuart Mill Liberal Arts Liberal Education Mortimer Jerome Adler Pedagogy Research

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On Sweetness and Light, Discipline and Creativity: Culture and Anarchy

22 December 2017

Book Notes Conservatism Creativity David Ricardo Edmund Burke Henry Sidgwick Herbert Spencer John Stuart Mill Matthew Arnold Mrs Humphrey Ward Tate Art Museum Thomas Malthus William Powell Frith

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I ought? I owe it to Whom?

16 October 2017

Book Notes Feuerbach Friedrich Nietzsche Goethe Heraclitus Hesiod John Stuart Mill Kant Martin Luther Philosophy Plato Pre-Socratic Philosophy Religion Schopenhauer Spinoza

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I think, therefore, I am... Hey, what's that shadow?

15 September 2017

Albert Camus Book Notes Dostoevsky Existentialism Friedrich Nietzsche Heidegger hong kong Jaspers Jean-Paul Sartre John Stuart Mill Kierkegaard Stoicism Walter Kaufmann William Barrett

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Book Notes: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" by James Fitzjames Stephen

Conservatism Edmund Burke James Fitzjames Stephen John Stuart Mill Liberty On Liberty

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Book Notes: "Utilitarianism" by John Stuart Mill

1895 Aristotle Epicurus Herbert Spencer Jack London Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill Martin Eden On Liberty Socrates Sophists Utilitarianism

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Book Notes: "The Subjection of Women" by John Stuart Mill

22 October 2016

Book Notes John Stuart Mill Liberty

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Book Notes: "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill

18 September 2016

Book Notes John Stuart Mill

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