Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure.
Bruce Buchan
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Australians have indulged Pauline Hanson’s public career for 30 years. She’s rusted into our political establishment. Yet in all that time she has only manifested a relentlessly sour, ignorant, resentful, narrow, and miserably bigoted point of view. What in heavens does that say of us as a nation?
It’s is seriously beyond irony that as elected centrist governments face ever more stridently racist and fascist insurgencies, they are presiding over the wholesale destruction of universities, and making a university education prohibitive for those who most need it: their own citizens.
This should become an axiom in political science: a government is beyond all hope of survival when it begins arresting its citizens for publicly witnessing a metaphor of its own corruption.
The Age of Trump demonstrates the value of an education in the humanities every day. It poses hourly questions of ethics and epistemology, repeatedly shows the relevance of history, demonstrates distortions of language. Even the Reflecting Pool has become a gaping metaphor in paint and algae.
I’m no psephologist, nor any kind of expert on British politics, I just hope these low figures indicate that voters for the Raving Loony Party and Count Binface have been strategically voting. And that British voters more generally have started composing the political epitaph for Reform and Restore.
It’s a swamp. A stagnant pool of water filled with algae. Trump didn’t “drain the swamp.” He made one, right in from of everyone’s eyes.
A new policy I’ll be adopting in my course in the coming months: if the student uses AI to produce their assignment, I will not provide any personalised feedback.
Each year Griffith University campus becomes an arena for a struggle between males of two different species moved by bloody minded wilfulness as the hapless ground staff do battle with the male Brushturkeys assembling their incubating nests. The current score is 1 - nil to the Brushturkeys!
