New Catallaxy

  • Guest Post: Wally Dali – Archibalds 2023

    We are approaching a point of Cultural Totality in the West. Soon, instant match media and the forces of promotion and censorship which leverage it will present the watching proles with an ever-present circus where approved musicians are granted exhibition space for visual art, endorsed politicians have their DJ setlists available for download on streaming…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 20 May 2023

  • Roundup Autumn 1990

    In the Centre for Independent Studies quarterly Policy magazine. EXTRACTS DE Soto. Only about 5 per cent of Peruvians belong to labour unions and more than 60 per cent are operating as entrepreneurs in the informal or black ecoqomy. Informal operators do not regard themselves as either the private or the public sector because they…

  • 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

  1. “The UKR have essentially become a marionette of the US and the use of these new weapons manifests this because…

  2. Jack Out The Back: Oasis in the desert. Check it out. You just want to jump in and swim. Replacing…

  3. Giving up was merely a negotiating position. Looks like even greater subsidy farming opportunities are back on the agenda!

  4. That must be why the electorate of Vaucluse, the richest in the country, has a Liberal MP. Your approach is…

  5. Car leases can make a lot of financial sense to a lot of high income people but FBT applies to…

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