Nicholas Gruen
@NGruen1
CEO Lateral Economics Promoting EQUALITY of speech through randomly selected citizens’ juries https://clubtroppo.com.au/2022/10/24/polarisation-and-the-case-for-citizens-juries/
Shucks Rory singing my praises See you at Kilkenomics in a few weeks @RorySutherland
This may be super unfair, but I'm skipping this paper - for ontological and epistemological reasons. "Decolonizing development economics In this paper, we scrutinize contemporary development economics to render visible the colonial impulses that lead to forms of silencing and…
Nice writing and analysis by Peter Brent: "For whatever reason, throughout the 2025 election campaign Peter Dutton repeatedly brought up either the Voice or the broader topic of Indigenous Australians, with a particular focus on violence in Alice Springs and “Welcome to Country”…
“Only a fool allows his enemies to educate his children.” Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam on racially descregating schools in the South
The UK Parliament is "a crowd of eager, ambitious men who do as much for their own interest as they dare and do as little for that of others as they can help" A little bleak, but there you go. It's a good line. Quoted by Andrew Inglis Clark Tasmanian founding father of…
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"Japanese officials said there was no written agreement with Washington — and no legally binding one would be drawn up", and surprise surprise, they deny giving Trump $550b to arbitrarily spend however he wants. ft.com/content/c1183b…
Don't mention the war, This week’s substack - listen to my discussion with Bernard. It’s good! open.substack.com/pub/nicholasgr…
Don't mention the war: How politics avoids everything that's uncomfortable. Everything that matters that is. And every now and then the stars align and, with some imagination, we can change the game. Srsly! youtu.be/7aYbf3RGktM
The highest social ideal is the participation of each and all in the advantages and joys of true comradeship in all that makes our life, but this ideal can never be realised without an equality in mental culture and in capacity of aspiration and sympathy such as can be produced…
Some excellent contributions to @spenderallegra's tax reform roundtable. youtube.com/live/E9diyLKgN…
“Our friends Nazified [gleichschalteten] themselves! The problem … after all, was not what our enemies did, but what our friends did.” Hannah Arendt
Paul Keating patiently explains how his pet orangutan escaped Onlookers remain sceptical
"As in the 1930s, the decisions made now could shape the future of the continent and even of the world for generations. I am not optimistic. But of one thing I am sure: if democratic Europe cannot act in concert now, it is doomed." The Ukraine war will shape the world…
"One conversation that stuck with me was with an older woman who proudly pointed out trees at the end of her street that she had planted as a child — now thirty metres tall." From a Tasmanian who blew back into Tassie to campaign for Peter George - now an MP.
"I once described myself in my place in Parliament as a Democrat by despair, because, while believing that all other systems were self-condemned by their distinctive fruits, I wished to guard myself from being understood as believing that the triumph of democracy would regenerate…
"Those were the old days, when they had tough politicians," he told a crowd of supporters in Arizona. "Think of that, 1798. Oh, it's a powerful act. You couldn't pass something like that today." npr.org/2024/10/19/nx-…
