ARE YOU ABETTING, MAN?
Two people are having a conversation over the phone. One is in a typical Singapore apartment complex. Lush green trees are all around....
May 27, 202417 min read
I'M ALL FOR BURNING BOOKS (AND SO ARE YOU)
You read that right. I’m all for burning books, as I'm pretty sure you are. Just because you can conjure a pithy line you heard in a film or picked up from someone on social media about democracy or free expression doesn’t make the sentiment true. Yes, there was most certainly a time when books were precious items and libraries temples celebrating and preserving the world’s culture and collective wisdom. And, yes, in that context destroying a book or a library, god forbid, co
May 23, 202413 min read
SYSTEMIC OR DISCRETE?
For years we were hearing about the replication crisis in the world of psychology; how so much accepted work in the field had never been...
May 14, 20242 min read
JOURNALISM AND PERCEPTION or REMEMBERING JOHN PILGER
Thinking about journalism and public perception, I was reminded today that in 1979 Australian journalist John Pilger entered Cambodia....
May 13, 20246 min read
TRINITY
I haven’t written anything about the encampments, the ones that have sprung up seemingly over night, like springtime mushrooms, on the...
May 8, 20247 min read
