Opinion Dominion

Here, at the TLS, of all places, is a pretty good and succinct explanation of how quantum theory evolved , in the context of the contributio...

Can't say that I exactly long to watch the SBS documentary/reality TV show Struggle Street , but I did last night, particularly interest...

In an opening paragraph that I assume will cause hairs to be raised on any free market economist who supported Brexit,  Roger Scruton explai...

I do get rather sick of the Right going "ha ha Lefties - look at Venezuela  - look where your socialism takes countries".   But...

Jeff Sparrow's examples of Milo's "jokes" at his shows just emphasises what an embarrassment it should be, if they had an...

I haven't been visiting arXiv much lately, but here's a paper with someone doing some maths about keeping the Earth going despite t...

I see that Lefty John Quiggin is still a complete skeptic on Bitcoin , and that Sinclair Davidson and anyone vaguely libertarian seems to th...

Courtesy of my daughter's involvement in the Queensland Youth Orchestra, we were offered a few free tickets to a performance this evenin...

So, last night, due to another offer from Google Play on my TV for an "any movie" hire for .99 cents, we watched  the widely panne...

I think I saw a headline about this somewhere earlier in the week, but here's the summary at Nature: Civilization-threatening super-e...

I'm surprised that he's prepared to go as far as he does in this letter, as the position of the author would indicate he's got s...

In media appearances, I've usually found Senator Sam Dastyari affable enough, and pretty quick witted.  But I've said before that hi...

Trump is a gullible Grade A conspiracy monger about the nuttiest things, who doesn't have the common sense to keep his suspicions to him...

He argues here that the fundamental problem with the GOP tax plan is not cutting corporate tax per se , but cutting it way too far than any...

Yes, the first tweet shows their pure denialism - or perhaps more accurately, plain lying; the second tweet just makes no common sense; exce...

The professional troll Milo is best ignored, but the SBS report on his first, vacuous, Australian press conference says: Yiannopoulos has ...

The Economist gave some numbers for gay marriage in an article recently: One possible explanation for the nonchalance is that the number o...

One other observation:  watching both the path of the Republican tax bill in the US at the moment ( which has many , many problems) and the...

I can never envisage developing an interest in cricket, but it's unavoidable noticing some media commentary on the game at times. I ha...

I didn't realise how much Kant was "into" anthropology (or at least, what might be called anthropology in his day).  From an a...