New Catallaxy

There is an article in The Oz on who used to be my favourite American president but is now only my second-favourite – Warren G. Harding. As the article points out, although he was president for only 29 months, he is regularly listed among the worst presidents in American history by that motley crew of…

I missed the debate. I was out. I have it recorded, waiting to be watched. Do I really, really, have to watch it? I met a neighbour who said she’d watched it; said it was very civil. And that the audience behaved. Even more reasons not to watch it. She didn’t mention the incident of…

Well, here we are.   Approaching two months since Russian forces moved into Ukraine with no resolution currently in sight.   Indeed, the opposite is true with the west, led by the United States, feeding vast quantities of weapons into the Ukrainian military. Have you noticed how muted the calls for a ceasefire are in our media?  …

The Very Voice of God Released in 1984 and based on the play by Peter Shaffer, Miloš Forman’s magnificent film Amadeus tells the fictional stories of composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri where Salieri as an old man claims to have murdered Mozart. During his confession to a priest in a mental asylum, Salieri…

I watched, reluctantly, the first “debate” between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, and this is what I now find out from the papers: Undecided voters give win to Anthony Albanese after leaders’ debate. This was the final tally: Of the 100 undecided voters at the debate, 40 per cent gave the debate…

My War: How I got irony in the infantry, Paul Fussell, Harper’s What I Said at Harvard: What’s Wrong with the Proposition: “Return to the Founders to Save America”, Patrick Deneen, The Postliberal Order Scissors, Paste, and Aquinas, Pat Smith, Ius & Iustitium The Logic of Lockdowns Leads to Shanghai, Alex Gutentag, Compact New Model…