Regimes of unpaid labour over the Covid-19 pandemic
School closures during the Covid pandemic have placed an added burden on parents to perform...
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Author of The Oldest Trick in the Book: Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Palgrave Macmillan 2020).
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What will history say about the Voice to Parliament?
This essay has been updated. Despite its very conspicuous lived history of indifference and neglect...
Weaponising progress
This essay has been updated. Living the values articulated in speech has never been a...
‘Green Wall Street’: on the extractivist co-option of ecological politics
Where its capacity to betray any alleged values is concerned, the Australian Labor Party rarely...
Culture wars defend the minority of the opulent from the majority
If dispassionate debate of ideas is the theoretical means by which policy is formed in...
Adolf Hitler: A Political Archetype of the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Edited version of an article from 2016. Where textbook examples of propaganda, demagoguery and totalitarianism...
A world of slaves under his eye: totalitarian attacks on reproductive justice
Reproductive justice has always been a bugbear for reactionaries and totalitarians. A woman who enjoys...
Completing the democratic revolution
In the global North, we are indoctrinated from an early age in the ideological morés...
The personal is political. The private isn’t
As Carol Hanisch pointed out in her eponymous 1970 essay, the personal is political. Many...
Wokewashing the money cult: ideological coping mechanisms in the end-times
End of days-type periods are hardly unknown throughout history; the fact that empires rise and...