New Catallaxy

  • How To Cheat At Tennis

    The term “line ball” is sometimes used to indicate an argument that could go either way. In tennis, though, any part of a ball that does hit any part of the line, is “in.” At the highest level of tennis, players flirt with the lines all the time, and there are many “line balls,” or,…

  • Take the White Pill!

    A message from Michael Malice by way of Dara Macdonald. The White Pill is an alternative to the Blue Pill, the Red Pill and the Black Pill. Michael Malice traced the rise of the Soviet Union and its outposts in every country in the world, from the bloody revolution through the catalogue of horrors, the…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 28 Jan 2023

    Sailboat at Le Petit-Gennevilliers, Claude Monet, 1874

  • Parasite: Christianity with Korean characteristics

    I was struck by a particular sequence in the movie the first time I saw it (on the TV, I’m have to confess) two or three years ago. WolfmanOz’s commentaries on movies brought that sequence to mind again. If you haven’t seen Parasite, it is probably best not to read this post, which is certainly…

  • Flag flying on Australia Day

    On Australia Day I fly the national flag from our front balcony. From both directions along our street it can be seen. Never once have I thought this action is a political statement. Until now. Australians tend to shy away from overt displays of politics. Yes, we vote; that is a given in a compulsory…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #55

    Golden Boy Born William Franklin Beedle Jr. on April 17th, 1918, William Holden became one of the most popular movie stars of the 1950s and is probably my favourite actor from that era. After graduating from high school he became involved in local radio plays and by the late 30s was appearing in a number…

  • Our wombat energy minister

    How many mistakes can the Climate Change and Energy Minister make in three sentences? According to Mark Ludlow and Angela Macdonald-Smith, writing in the Fin Review last Friday (20th), Mr Bowen said (1) the war in Ukraine was responsible for 90 per cent of the global electricity price rises last year. He said(2) the move…

  • A conservative vagabond guest post

    The New Conflict of Visions How new constrained/unconstrained religious visions produce the political polarisation of today Dara Macdonal I will explore the new conflict of visions that these new religions create and the political fall out of each, as follows: https://daramacdonald.substack.com/p/the-new-conflict-of-visions

  • Rafe’s Roundup Jan 24

    Drop in and see what they are up to! The Energy Realists of Australia Jo Nova Quadrant on line IPA         Climate and energy program  CIS          The Sydney Institute Menzies Research Centre  Mannkal Economics Education Foundation           Advance Australia  Taxpayers Alliance  Australian Inst for Progress The Conservative Vagabond The Rathouse and The Site of Kilmeny Niland How Africa defeated COVID so decisively without vaccines Read this alongside the…

  • Open Thread – Tue 24 Jan 2023

    Andromache mourning Hector, Jacques Louis David, 1783

  1. Don’t they realise that the “conversions” will be taken as real by the Mueslis? The girlies had better have their…

  3. Dreyfus and the Dept of Finance aren’t likely to want anyone taking too close an interest in that payment. Might…

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