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Sep 11, 2024 | 
openforum.com.au | Russell Blackford
In The War Against the Past: Why the West Must Fight for Its History, British sociologist Frank Furedi criticises approaches to history and its cultural legacy that have become all too recognisable. He blames institutions such as universities, school systems and museums, as well as educators, curators, journalists and others with responsibility for guiding students or informing the general public.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Russell Blackford
By Russell Blackford, Conjoint Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Newcastle
In The War Against the Past: Why the West Must Fight for Its History, British sociologist Frank Furedi criticises approaches to history and its cultural legacy that have become all too recognisable.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
hashtag.net.au | Russell Blackford
In The War Against the Past: Why the West Must Fight for Its History, British sociologist Frank Furedi criticises approaches to history and its cultural legacy that have become all too recognisable. He blames institutions such as universities, school systems and museums, as well as educators, curators, journalists and others with responsibility for guiding students or informing the general public.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Russell Blackford
In The War Against the Past: Why the West Must Fight for Its History, British sociologist Frank Furedi criticises approaches to history and its cultural legacy that have become all too recognisable. He blames institutions such as universities, school systems and museums, as well as educators, curators, journalists and others with responsibility for guiding students or informing the general public.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
eurekastreet.com.au | Russell Blackford
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Brian Stewart |Cathy Young |Benny Morris |Russell Blackford
We never pay any-one Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost;For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!~Rudyard Kipling 1904 was a presidential election year in the United Statesâand the political convention of the incumbent party was being held in Chicago.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Benny Morris |Russell Blackford |Matt Johnson |David Benatar
Introduction: My guest today is the philosopher Oliver Traldi. Oliver is a postdoctoral fellow at the James Madison Program at Princeton University and an incoming professor at the Honors College of the University of Tulsa. I talked to Oliver about his recent book, Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction, published by Routledge University Press. Oliver has chosen to forgo royalty payments in exchange for permission to make his book freely available online.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Benny Morris |Russell Blackford |Matt Johnson |David Benatar
In around 538 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus the Great, who had just conquered Babylon (Mesopotamia), allowed the Jews to return to their homeland, the Land of Israel, and rebuild their temple in Jerusalem. Forty-eight years earlier, the Babylonians had conquered Jerusalem, destroyed the temple, and exiled many of the Jewish elite to Babylon. In 520–515 BCE, Darius I, Cyrus II’s son, promoted the completion of the temple, siphoning off taxes farmed in Syria for this purpose.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Russell Blackford |Matt Johnson |David Benatar |Aaron Sarin
This year, Australia has witnessed a series of terrifying crimes, which gained widespread media attention. Most shocking, perhaps, was the killing spree by Joel Cauchi at a shopping mall in Sydney’s Bondi Junction on 13 April. Cauchi stabbed six people to death, five of them women, before he was fatally shot by female police officer Amy Scott, who has been commended for her bravery.
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May 23, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Timandra Harkness |Iona Italia |Larissa Phillips |Russell Blackford
IntroductionThis week, you’re in for a treat because my guest isn’t just a razor-sharp observer of the American culture wars, she’s also wickedly funny, in person as well as in print. Her name is Nellie Bowles, whom you might know from her work covering Silicon Valley at The New York Times until she quit in 2021 after observing—or perhaps enduring is the better word—her newspaper’s slide into vicious social-justice bullying among young members of the editorial staff.
