Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.
Google returns 884,000,000 results for “celebrity” but only 28,200,000 results for “social worker”.
I’ve been wondering lately about why we are so deeply affected by stories about religious martyrs. I’m guessing it goes back to worshipping bronze age gods and deciding…
My guest today is Brad Heitmann. Brad lives in Utah, has a background in investment banking and start-up strategy and loves history. Today, however, he joins me to…
I’ve been reading some fascinating posts lately on the attempts – past and present – to rig U.S. elections. As with all theories that don’t have sufficient supporting…
I caught up with a guy for a cigar last night and, as usual, we ended up talking about politics and philosophy. I mentioned that I believe Australians…
Wendy Bacon is a contributing editor to NewMatilda and has reported for Crikey, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Conversation in recent times. She is an investigative journalist with a background in social activism who worked at…
Today I’m chatting with Jenna Price, one of the key people behind the “DESTROY THE JOINT” movement to stop sexism and misogyny in Australia. Jenna talks about the success of…
Australia is one of only a few countries in the world that has the facilities to design and manufacture a car from digging the raw materials out of…
It has long been my intuition that a country like Australia should welcome refugees – not fear them. I guess this feeling in part comes from my first-hand…
I’ve started a brand new podcast series with David Cole called “The Dreaming”. It’s going to be a long series focused on indigenous affairs. We plan to talk…