New Catallaxy

Energy, education, health… Is there currently any aspect of life where this doesn’t seem to apply? We see it almost everyday on this blog (H/T Monty).

Ok, let’s see if I understand the basic premise of this Government video. In its drive to eradicate discrimination and bias from its hiring practices, the Federal Government undertakes a trial of a recruiting process designed to remove it. The trial does indeed identify discrimination and bias in the public service hiring practices, just not…

Trans Barbarism, Nina Power, Compact What the West gets wrong about Putin, Harald Malmgren, UnHerd We Know How America Got Such a Corporate-Friendly Court, Sohrab Ahmari, Patrick Deneen and Chad Pecknold, NY Times The New Malthusians, Lyman Stone, Plough Paracelsus’s First Do No Harm: A Review by Charles Haywood, IM-1776 The Problems of Australia’s Deep Past – Part…

Everyone is suddenly wise after the event – except about the wrong event. Behold, David Crowe in the SMH, presenting what has become conventional wisdom since last Sunday: Energy crisis: A crash we all saw coming but did nothing to stop After years of slow failure in plain sight, the Australian energy system has hit…

Audrey Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston on May 4th, 1929 in Ixelles near Brussels, Audrey Hepburn spent her childhood in Belgium, England and the Netherlands. She experienced the ravages of Nazi occupation of Holland during WWII where she witnessed many traumatic events including the transportation of Dutch Jews to concentration/extermination camps plus her uncle was executed…

Leftism is a great evil. Built on lies to serve an agenda; led by a lust for power over others. The Devil’s spawn perhaps. But if so, has it always lurked within human societies; since the dawn of time? A question to which I have no answer. I’m no historian of antiquity. Three of us…