Month: May 2023

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #71

    The ultimate man of conscience It is a widely accepted axiom that it is easier to make a good movie out of a bad play than out of a good one; a bad play can be altered with a clear conscience so that its mishandled virtues are brought to the fore in a different medium,…

  • Guest Post: Muddy – Who Wrote That?

    The premise of this post is simple: Match a numbered comment below with the Cat you consider made that comment. i.e. 21. I am superior to youse all! Muddy. Or just: 21. Muddy. I will reveal the authors, along with the exact date and time the comment was made. The numbers are not rankings, but…

  • The first Roundup

    From CIS Policy quarterly in Winter 1989

  • Open Thread – Tues 16 May 2023

  • Rafe’s Roundup 15 May

    Drop in and see what the usual suspects are up to CIS   The Energy Realists     The Conservative Vagabond Jo Nova    The Monarachists Quadrant on line The Free Press IPA Climate and energy program      The Sydney Institute Mannkal     Menzies Research Centre    Taxpayers   Alexandra Marshall  Advance Australia     Australian Inst for Progress Bettina Arndt REMEMBERING JOHN HYDE. His…

  • God Save The King

    Until last evening, I hadn’t seen The King’s Speech with Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth and company. Usually watch some shoot-‘em up over a red wine or three.  Good movie. I enjoyed it. Whether the dialogue between the King and Lionel Logue is remotely close to the truth I doubt, but the substance of the plotline…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 13 May 2023

  • The Censorship Industrial Complex

    An important post by Jo Nova on the Censorship Industrial Complex, an echo of the Military Industrial Complex that grew up after WW2 and an advanced form of the Climate Industrial Complex that spread fake news and started to get serious about censoring dissident voices. A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS To simplify the message that…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #70

    A Tale of the Christ There are some films that make a lasting impression when you see them for the first time, and Ben-Hur (the 1959 version) is one such movie for myself. I first saw it on a re-release in the early 1970s when my parents took the family to see it on a…

  • Chat GPT review of Popper’s OSE

    Question. Write a 2000 word review of The Open Soceity and Its Enemies by Karl Popper The money quote. He warns that any attempt to suppress intellectual freedom, whether through censorship or propaganda, will inevitably lead to the suppression of all other freedoms, and ultimately to the destruction of the open society itself. Karl Popper’s…