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  • people reloaded: why mass protest in Iran is true politics worth supporting
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  • David Harvey, Marx, economic crisis
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  • Minima Moralia: Toward the End
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  • Raymond Guess on philosophy and politics
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  • returning to social democracy?
  • Review of Northern Territory Emergency Response
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  • idealised economics
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  • Barack Obama: Democratic National Convention Speech
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  • Hegel's dialectic
  • Preface to Ted Mullighan's Report on sexual abuse in 'The Lands' in SA
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  • rethinking the political
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  • Soros on the financial markets
  • okaying torture
  • interpreting the Australian constitution
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  • rethinking universities under Rudd Labor
  • Gruen on neo-liberalism
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  • a shift in global power
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  • Hobbes, language, interpretation,
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  • Pearson on the Apology
  • saying sorry
  • Simon Critchley's Infinitely Demanding
  • neo-liberalism
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  • hostility to rights
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  • 'Trust me' government
  • America's unipolar moment
  • Australia Day
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  • Bourdieu + collective intellectual
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  • surveillance
  • Roskam on rights
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  • changes in the liberal state
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  • Treasury, capability development
  • Nietzsche
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  • Ken Henry, indigenous disadvantage, capability development
  • Rancière and the political
  • revisiting populism
  • Rorty: philosophy & democracy
  • European federation
  • Arendt, The Jewish Writings
  • Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal
  • thinking about capitalism
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  • Minnie Pwerle
  • Julian Tudor Hart on Health care
  • An Xmas card
  • virtues and communities
  • The Internet as the fifth estate?
  • a note on economics
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  • violent democracies
  • morality +politics
  • interpreting constitutions
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  • Skinner on Hobbes + the state
  • from welfare to opportunity society
  • Australian Republicanism and Public Health/Education
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  • Foucault: the police
  • overconsumption
  • Panopticism
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  • Foucault , surveillance, panopticism
  • freedom as self-realization
  • liberalism + republicanism
  • Raymond Aron on Hayek and political reason
  • Switzer on Conservatism in Australia
  • Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents
  • Friedman's libertarianism
  • Kristol on neo-conservatism
  • second rate public intellectuals
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  • what now for the liberal university?
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  • Adorno: History and freedom
  • restoring the social contract
  • about populism # 1
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  • Sophocles: To him who is in fear, everything rustles
  • David Malouf on res publica
  • about populism
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  • liberalism
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  • Scruton on conservatism
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  • a Bill of Rights
  • judicial activism
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  • High Court conservatism
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  • Indigenous communities: why the booze?
  • a shadowy existence
  • Atheism and Morality
  • High Court +federalism
  • Tin Dunlop's missing Blogocracy post
  • Martin Leet on reform
  • a utilitarian society
  • Dame Roma Mitchell Oration: Hilary Charlesworth
  • political action is...
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  • Noel Pearson wobbles
  • ideology #2
  • ideology
  • a post-political utopia
  • indigenous development
  • libertarianism + indigenous well being
  • Indigenous communites, social norms, welfare reform
  • Sovereign by Exception
  • governing indigenous people
  • Cape York Welfare Reform Project
  • Richard Rorty
  • Indigenous people,democracy, power
  • Little Children Are Sacred: note on public policy
  • wellbeing and progress
  • deregulating higher education
  • Convention and the Force of Practice
  • globalization backlash
  • politicising the bureaucracy
  • Hadrian's Sovereignty
  • social liberalism
  • Ethics of economic rationalism
  • debate about America as empire
  • a note on propserity & happiness
  • it's neglect
  • just like Londistan
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  • the naked public square
  • religion and state
  • conservatism, 9/11, cultural left
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  • Pax Romana and Pax Americana
  • Noel Pearson on Rudd's critique of neo-liberalism
  • Deleuze
  • utopian puzzles: America + Australia
  • Benjamin Barber: citizenship in a global world
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  • more democracy needed
  • Rethinking social democracy
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  • Levinas: rethinking liberalism?
  • Hayek and state planning
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  • Derrida on philosophy
  • Redemptive politics
  • liberalism in a broken form
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  • Hegel on the state revisited
  • Parrhesia + democracy
  • a note on historical agency
  • Democracy + religion
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  • legal reasoning
  • Foucault, unreason, governmentality
  • from liberal to neo-liberal political rationality
  • liberalism as a political rationality
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  • Blair's Ghosts
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  • Oakeshott +conservatism
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  • panopticism
  • war conditions#2
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  • Libertarian strands+ contradictions
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  • Remembering Edmund Burke
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  • sovereignty +governmentality
  • paranoia in the world of nations
  • a "concert "of power
  • Walzer + war
  • Iraq syndrome?
  • Indigneous communities: violence +sexual abuse
  • religious fundamentalism + enlightenment
  • globalization and global cities
  • Londistan: Melanie Philips in Australia
  • media +politics
  • rhetoric +public sphere.
  • biopower and sovereignty
  • Arendt: interpreting the political in modernity
  • Condoleezza Rice defends empire
  • Guantánamo Bay: No Exit
  • Legal Morality and Australian Republicanism
  • inside Guantanamo Bay
  • questioning Zionism
  • arguing for republicanism
  • American democracy in Action
  • Noel Pearson: from village to hellhole
  • Nietzsche + friendship
  • Friendship and politics
  • innovative blogging
  • Arendt+responsibility
  • politics+immanent critique
  • drawing the line
  • rethinking political concepts
  • Hegel: property & right
  • interpreting constitutions
  • democracy v empire
  • Hegel, natural rights, recognition
  • beyond rights
  • Montesquieu + the role of independent judicial branch
  • natural right
  • Few Against Few
  • Schmitt and Benjamin
  • a new federalism
  • a counter-moverment to a state of exception?
  • Schmitt and Australian Republicanism
  • reconsidering imperialism
  • liberalism v democracy
  • the failings of the modern left?
  • facing cultural breakdown
  • a note on the Israeli Lobby
  • Adam Smith: ethics and markets
  • Mouffe & Schmitt on liberal democracy #2
  • Why Zizek for Political Theory?
  • Zizek, nationalism, pyschoanalysis
  • another kind of liberalism?
  • Quiggin + Farrell on social democracy
  • political conversations
  • Nussbaum, libertarianism, social democracy
  • philosophy in Australia
  • Hayek, tradition, market
  • classical liberalism: some puzzles
  • Seneca: On the Happy Life
  • Mouffe & Schmitt on Liberal democracy
  • Deaths in Custody: Mulrunji Doomadgee
  • Derrida on Schmitt
  • talking sense on democracy
  • utilitarianism and the political
  • philosophy.com: things not working as they should
  • reading Schmitt with Derrida
  • Mouffe on liberalism, democracy & Schmitt #2
  • Arendt, imperialism, the political
  • Derrida, friendship, politics
  • Mouffe on liberalism, democracy & Schmitt
  • Derrida: the Politics of Friendship
  • Owen Harries, US hegemony, Iraq
  • liberal nationalism
  • liberalism, the political, Schmitt
  • religion and public reason
  • Australian conservatism & Carl Schmitt
  • Manne on Rudd on neo-liberalism
  • economists, irrationality, democracy
  • limits of Empire
  • conservative populism
  • re-thinking the welfare state
  • Kevin Rudd on neo-liberalism
  • questioning that special relationship with the US
  • David Harvey on neo-liberal governance #2
  • critical Jewish voices
  • indigenous development
  • America's empire
  • David Harvey on neo-liberal governance
  • neoconservatism & American exceptionalism
  • exploring liberal citizenship
  • the neoconservative critique of capitalism
  • Zionism as a nationalism
  • wish fulfilment
  • a strange conservatism
  • Lowenstein's 'My Israel Question'
  • federalism gutted
  • neo-liberal governance
  • evaluating the Third Way
  • its a Hobbesian world
  • privatising probation services.
  • a weakened Congress
  • passive welfare
  • Pearson on indigenous health care
  • Bad Subjects
  • law & the humanities
  • truth telling
  • liberty and order
  • a supine parliament
  • blurring church and state
  • academic freedom
  • about "Islamo-fascism"
  • religion is the problem
  • Carmen Lawence on the politics of fear
  • goodbye to Marxism?
  • Noel Pearson on neoconservatism
  • a tipping point in Iraq
  • dystopia
  • "All that is solid melts into air?"
  • national security and conservative anxiety
  • Foucault & state racism
  • Iraq: a bleak crossroads
  • UK general speaks a political truth
  • paradoxes of democracy
  • multiculturalism under the hammer
  • the right of free speech
  • Zionism's strategies
  • on the Israeli Lobby
  • A critique of the Howard years
  • Questioning the welfare state #2
  • Foucault: Society Must be Defended #3
  • questioning the welfare state
  • market populism
  • Foucault on racism
  • Clinton v Fox News
  • Foucault's Society Must Be Defended
  • native title claim over metropolitan Perth
  • Dworkin on (deliberative) democracy #3
  • an imperial presidency
  • when interrogation crosses into torture
  • recovering humanity
  • governing terrorism
  • the sad state of liberalism
  • beyond welfare
  • Society Must be Defended
  • is ideology shaping foreign policy?
  • political seduction
  • remembering 9/11
  • welfare-to-work & governmentality
  • tolerance & governmentality
  • about tolerance
  • uni's prefer the wealthy?
  • empire+nationalism
  • a sad moment
  • dim prospects
  • Steyn in Australia: demography & destiny
  • Dworkin on (deliberative) democracy #2
  • sacrificing the rule of law
  • a paradox of power
  • Dworkin on (deliberative) democracy
  • about Lebanon
  • diversity in Australian higher education?
  • Criticising the Australian Govt's Middle East policy
  • a dearth of conservatives in Australia
  • Mulitculturalism, integration and separatism
  • law & norms
  • the language of 'war on terror'
  • a note on empire
  • Is the Bush doctrine really dead?
  • value pluralism
  • liberalism and value pluralism
  • Family First: 'strong and fair border protection'
  • Liberal dissent
  • democracy in action
  • The Australian's op ed trash
  • regional transformation
  • back on deck
  • still on holidays
  • conservatism as authoritarianism?
  • The new Rome
  • on holidays from philosophy
  • Foucault+pastorship
  • Foucault, the state, political knowledge, CoAG
  • democracy, rule, Arendt
  • Anti-Zionism in Australia's Academia?
  • On America's 'we don't do empire '
  • Identity, Immigration, and Liberal Democracy #2
  • Cicero: fear and power
  • Identity, Immigration, and Liberal Democracy
  • Israeli Lobby #2
  • federalism: revitalising the states?
  • economics & individualism
  • about neo-classical economics
  • Australian federalism
  • rethinking federalism the Australian way
  • conservative governance
  • a receipe for social democratic success?
  • Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: democracy affirming
  • Grand strategy & empire
  • Arendt on power + force
  • the rationality of economic rationalism
  • liberal freedoms
  • cold war liberalism?
  • drinking from the conservative cup
  • a new form of paternalism
  • redundancy as human waste
  • the eclipse of the common public world
  • liberal governmentality
  • citizenship in motion
  • the camp as 'the nomos of the modern'
  • the camp as bare life
  • a modern gulag
  • compassionate conservatism?
  • Schmitt: the partisan & the political
  • Carl Schmitt: the partisan
  • mutations in citizenship
  • On Hayek: ambiguities
  • a political paradox
  • Zionism as a nationalism
  • An Israel Lobby
  • beyond laissez -faire
  • Zonism: implications
  • Spinoza, marxism & the political
  • liberalism's big problem
  • instead of words
  • try this: returning to Aristotle
  • rethinking rights--Miko Bagaric
  • the social democratic squeeze
  • state of emergency & centralizing power
  • Strauss, Hegel, the desire for recognition
  • Leo Strauss on tyranny
  • teaching happiness
  • Agamben on Arendt on refugees
  • Arendt's republicanism
  • Kant, refugees, rights
  • Arendt & the political
  • blogging, little magazines, public sphere
  • ruling through fear
  • blogging, public opinion, surveillance
  • state of exception
  • the changing nature of federalism
  • re-reading Leo Strauss
  • Senator Evans, aboriginal wellbeing, ideological baggage
  • Machiavelli
  • turning to Spinoza
  • integration, freedom, rights
  • Habermas, a critical public sphere, Machiavelli
  • getting by without rights?
  • Political liberalism
  • Habermas & the force of reason
  • national security state
  • The Euston Manifesto: some queries
  • wealth of networks
  • Fukuyama, modernity, struggle for recognition
  • Fukuyama's 'After the Neocons'
  • the networked information economy
  • Beyond Workchoices
  • Deirdre McCloskey: 2006 James Buchanan Lecture
  • Australia: a utilitarian country
  • the transformation of marxism
  • critique of liberalism: Schmitt & Strauss
  • We are like travelers navigating an unknown terrain with the help of old maps
  • Immigration, Tronti, refusal
  • seizing fortuna by the hair at the right moment
  • protecting borders v imigration
  • Schmitt: the political, war, violence
  • Schmitt on enemies and friends
  • re-reading Althusser
  • what's happening to the middle class?
  • getting tough on multiculturalism
  • a question
  • Tronti's 'Strategy of Refusal' #2
  • enemies and friends in politics
  • federalism's blind spots
  • liberal interventionism & Carl Schmitt
  • neo-con illusions
  • IR Reforms, Tronti, and the strategy of refusal
  • the power of lobbyists
  • offshoring jobs: some questioning
  • The ALP reflects on indigenous policy
  • from state to nation
  • democratic rule: lessons from Tasmania
  • rethinking sovereignty
  • the end of history, the last man + two Americas
  • Empire + sovereignty
  • Bush's 'state of exception'
  • between civil society and the state
  • the death of social democracy?
  • multitude as democracy
  • Empire as globlization
  • violent democracy
  • renewing social democracy
  • ALP -rotten to the core
  • Opposition politics feels like dogshit on the boot of democracy
  • H R Nicholls Society--where to now?
  • Costello's dog whistle politics
  • and the ' bell tolled its melancholy dirge for the dead'
  • Murray N. Rothbard, rhetoric, economics
  • liberal virtues
  • ALP: rhetoric and reality
  • neocon illusions
  • ALP: payback
  • The French New Right on the crisis of modernity
  • Windshuttle attacks the left-yet again
  • Gittens on economic growth and wellbeing
  • French New Right
  • political friendship as solidarity?
  • ALP: the end of solidarity?
  • The Latham Diaries
  • useful political cartoons
  • a divided culture
  • wiretapping citizens
  • law in a time of emergency
  • ethics and politics
  • governmentality and neo-liberalism
  • another kind of governance
  • freedom, bildung, Hegel
  • the political recognition of cultural particularity
  • on governmentality
  • liberal multiculturalism?
  • a good point
  • Australian values
  • rewriting history
  • West Papuan refugees fleeing Indonesian oppression?
  • political power as holding the fort
  • authority
  • a neo-con map of the Middle East
  • democratizing democracy
  • limits of deliberative democracy?
  • another kind of freedom
  • Ariel Sharon: a man of peace?
  • Arendt, praxis, political life
  • sovereign power & biopower
  • preconditions for technology parks#2
  • the emergency as the norm
  • constitutional challenges
  • human beings are made into subjects
  • re-thinking freedom after poststructuralism
  • technology parks
  • the arrogation of power
  • Foucault, freedom, social control
  • Xmas day in the national security state
  • out of sorts
  • on multiculturalism
  • the administration of life
  • neo-liberal freedom
  • voices from the past
  • Three faces of Australian conservatism
  • Conservatism contra liberalism
  • Cronulla & the Australian Right
  • The Politics of Fear#4
  • Australian neo-liberalism
  • disease and fear
  • Judiciary & anti-terrorism laws
  • a cartoon narrative of neo-liberalism
  • Hegel, abstract right, liberalism.
  • the politics of fear
  • goodbye liberalism
  • Anti-terrorism legislation: goodbye liberalism?
  • a neo-liberal mode of governance
  • The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
  • neo-liberal governance
  • blogging and media events
  • Judith Brett on liberalism & conservatism
  • Judith Brett on liberalism
  • assimilation & globalization
  • Hegel on freedom
  • considering political liberalism
  • us and them
  • a condition of peace
  • ALP: identity crisis
  • Protecting Australia
  • France: no to multiculturalism
  • Leo Strauss on Hobbes, fear, political power
  • Judith Brett on Howard's Liberals
  • Carmen Lawrence on fear, power, security
  • discourse of terrroism
  • the politics of fear #2
  • the politics of polarization
  • The ALP: gone sailing?
  • the politics of fear
  • Foucault
  • enhancing freedoms and building capabilities
  • thinking about conservatism
  • beyond left and right
  • Thinking about neo-liberalism
  • ALP --time for renewal
  • interpreting Agamben
  • happiness as a bad idea
  • Norberg on prosperity and happiness
  • Johan Norberg on environmentalism
  • explorations
  • security
  • The trials of social democracy
  • the figure of the refugee
  • Robert Fisk: a public lecture
  • the information economy
  • emergency as legitimation
  • White Australia again
  • a divided Australia?
  • White Australia, nationalism, Fraser
  • Hayek revisited
  • White Australia policy: philosophical underpinnings
  • White Australia revisited
  • the big chill in academia
  • philosophy defended
  • The Latham Show
  • the play of perspectives
  • New Orleans as a state of emergency
  • Reading Arendt
  • Interpreting Arendt
  • Arendt: rhetoric and performance
  • politics as performance
  • aftermath
  • death of liberalism?
  • political kitsch?
  • conservatism: internally divided
  • liberal coercion?
  • Berlin, pluralism, liberalism
  • Multiculturalism under threat
  • liberalism and value pluralism
  • Martha Nussbaum's lecture
  • philosophy and politics
  • Arendt: philosophy and politics
  • do you sense the totalitarianism?
  • debating the end of environmentalism
  • Environmentalism: losing the plot?
  • back to the past
  • Edward Said & criticism
  • when is it right to intervene?
  • politics as theatre
  • gatekeeping and digital democracy
  • old style blogging
  • the salvation of democracy
  • 'us' versus 'them'
  • rethinking republicanism
  • rights as capabilites
  • Natural right & historicism
  • an odd silence
  • 'Protecting Australia Against Terrorism'
  • modernism in politics
  • Revisiting Arendt
  • speech, blogging and digital democracy
  • understanding Empire #2
  • Conservative discourse on Palmer Report
  • publicness and speech in political life
  • Hegel: Intro to Phenomenology of Spirit
  • understanding empire
  • Digital Democracy
  • the banality of evil
  • towards digital democracy
  • the state of exception is the norm
  • a situation of emergency requires that ...
  • finding my way to Arendt
  • rhetoric and conversation
  • Manifest destiny: freedom & empire US style
  • Hegel: on constitutions
  • Reading Hegel's Phenomenology
  • Peter Saunders on Weber and ethics
  • Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit
  • Agamben: state of exception
  • Agamben: 'Muselmann'
  • about Foucault's understanding of power
  • medicine, snakeoil, politics
  • the poverty of academe
  • Leo Strauss in Australia
  • between academia and internet gibberish
  • Badiou: philosophy and politics
  • Giorgio Agamben: Remnants of Auschwitz
  • debating the camps
  • rethinking the political space
  • Agamben: Australian reception#1
  • Giorgio Agamben: the camp in modernity
  • Agamben: the camps in political life
  • Giorgio Agamben: the homo sacer project
  • homo sacer: a life unworthy of being lived
  • welcoming the other
  • Refugees, human rights, bare life
  • neo-liberalism+welfare to work reform
  • blogging, political events, meaning
  • blogging and politics
  • mandatory detention unravels?
  • the camp
  • violence
  • politics of child welfare
  • in Sydney
  • refugees: opening the doors?
  • Little Australia: a parody of history
  • populism contra liberalism.
  • renewing social democracy?
  • Agamben, exception, homo sacer, refugees
  • Detention, refugees, homo sacer
  • letting things be#2
  • letting things be
  • Foucault, power, sovereignty#2
  • philosophy on the internet
  • Foucault, power, sovereignty
  • Agamben: bare life and biopolitical life
  • philosophy and public affairs
  • questioning modernity
  • Carl Schmitt and International law #2
  • social democracy and the political
  • Carl Schmitt & International Law #1
  • Schmitt, Anzacs, conservatism
  • Kim Beazley on Anzacs & strategic policy
  • Carl Schmitt & total state
  • media, democracy, postmodernism, New Right
  • Iraq & media management
  • a progressive ALP?
  • federalism, nationality, centralism
  • Constitutional Interpretation #2
  • constitutional interpretation
  • challenging Liberalism
  • Leo Strauss & political philosophy #3
  • Carl Schmitt, dictatorship & the state of exception
  • pedophilia in politics, emergency measures, constitutional dictatorship
  • Agamben: State of Exception #3 two examples.
  • Agamben: State of Exception #2
  • Leo Strauss & political philosophy #2
  • between history and geography
  • Giorgio Agamben & Foucault.
  • federalism and globalization
  • Fiscal dominance & Australian federalism
  • Arendt, Aristotle , politics
  • diverse strands of conservatism
  • place
  • puzzlement
  • Leo Strauss & political philosophy
  • University Inc.
  • A liberal International Order #2
  • Giorgio Agamben & ethos
  • ethics and politics
  • a liberal international order
  • Lebanese Independence#3
  • Lebanese independence
  • Lebanon: democracy & independence
  • An Australian Enlightenment?
  • Description of Australia
  • Universities in the marketplace
  • Joseph Stiglitz: Four quotes
  • the public university
  • The demolition of the Constitution
  • T. H. Green, social liberalism, positive freedom
  • Derrida: democracy after 9/11#2
  • Australia's economic elites #1
  • Globalization and Australia's future: a big worry
  • Derrida: democracy after 9/11
  • media mangement in liberal democracy
  • Neo-conservatism+liberalism
  • humanism as nihilism?
  • neoconservatism + intellectuals
  • Neo-Conservatism+Irving Kristol
  • Foucault and deliberative democracy
  • an impoverished left?
  • The rule of law
  • neo-conservative strategies
  • neo-conservatism
  • Shadia Drury, Leo Strauss, populism
  • Shadia Drury's Straussian puzzles#2: Allan Bloom
  • Straussian puzzles: Shadia Drury
  • Straussian interpretations: American
  • Hayek: some puzzles
  • Friendship in politics
  • Carl Schmitt & the faultlines of constitutional liberalism
  • citizenship in the age of terror
  • moral politics and regulation
  • Torture and the state of exception in the US
  • Leo Strauss in Australia
  • Rewriting Marx
  • Foucault, social medicine, governmentality.
  • fundamentalism #3
  • Giorgio Agamben on the state of exception
  • No friends: reflections on Mark Latham
  • executions and sovereignty
  • democracy as governmentality
  • Liberal fundamentalism
  • Critical Theory: a strange silence
  • Interpreting the Stoics
  • Carl Schmitt: taxonomy of the state
  • comment spam again
  • fundamentalism & Hegel revised
  • Quotable: Arundhati Roy
  • Constitutional presuppositions
  • Questioning Zionism
  • science & democracy
  • Tsunami & global security: on gaps and connections
  • US as a rogue superpower?
  • social medicine
  • Globalization
  • Foucault, medicine, and the gaze
  • comment spam
  • a seachange
  • The CIA as the canary in the coal mine
  • Critical Theory: 1 & 2
  • Xmas thought.
  • liberal tensions
  • High Court: defending democracy?
  • universities, neo-liberalism, politics
  • Foucauldian critique of romantic democrats
  • executive dominance, rule of law, citizenship
  • democracy on the ropes
  • political deliberation: looking back & forward
  • Conversations with the Constitution#4: public reason
  • deliberative democracy, Foucault, mutual obligation
  • political public space
  • dumbed down
  • Islam and Modernity
  • Hayek: constitutional liberalism
  • Hayek: sometimes liberal sometimes conservative
  • from liberal to deliberative democracy
  • political deliberation
  • decline of social liberalism
  • of interest
  • Timothy Garton Ash: imperial reason
  • Deliberative democracy
  • federalism & state rights
  • executive dominance
  • Islam and the West
  • The end of Zionism?
  • Conversations with the Constitution: Kirby on legal bedrocks
  • Israel: three options
  • cycles of violence
  • Derrida: a non binary politics
  • Conversations with the constitution#3
  • Habermas: facts, law, norms
  • capitalist rationality
  • Zionism & refugees
  • Iraqi resistance
  • Zionism
  • US foreign policy
  • the market system
  • a forum on Hardt & Negri's Empire
  • Robert Bork Contra liberalism
  • Zizek on Frank & populism
  • Governmentality#5
  • American populism
  • From American liberalism to populism
  • anamnestic reason
  • Athens and Jerusalem #2
  • governmentality#4
  • Changes in in or confusions about conservatism
  • "competition"
  • science & democracy
  • Arendt: politics as critique of modernity
  • governing citizens
  • Governmentality#3
  • governmentality#2
  • Athens and Jerusalem
  • a quote
  • Foucault & governmentality
  • Sydney Peace Prize Lecture: 2003#4
  • US: looming economic crisis?
  • political liberalism
  • Friend/enemy & fear
  • punching liberalism
  • clash of civilizations
  • fear in politics
  • the status of philosophy
  • Australian Strategic Policy Debate#2
  • Australian Strategic Policy Debate
  • lying as fearmongering
  • time for change
  • The US/Australia Alliance
  • Peace in the Middle East
  • Jacques Derrida: death & friendship
  • Conversations with the Constitution#2
  • Sydney Peace Prize Lecture: 2003#3
  • Conversations with the constitution
  • Sydney Peace Prize Lecture: 2003#2--Just war
  • Stoicism#2
  • Stoicism#1
  • Epictetus: What philosophy promises
  • Sydney Peace Prize Lecture: 2003
  • Waging the dog
  • citizenship: institutional not abstract
  • Hegel & history
  • sovereignty: flaws with Hardt & Negri
  • Social democracy transformed
  • social democracy: anything left?
  • sovereignty as discourse
  • Sovereignty: a violent founding
  • nation-states & sovereignty#2
  • Nation states & Sovereignty
  • clash of civilizations
  • federalism & subsidiarity
  • Empire & the US
  • defining the left
  • terrorist provocations
  • Fear's Empire#2
  • citizenship & Australian Constitution
  • citizenship & nationality
  • citizenship
  • Reclaiming the Enlightenment
  • Interpreting the Enlightenment
  • economics & institutions
  • Keating's Redfern Speech
  • truth in politics
  • thin skins
  • Gaita: truthfulness in politics#3
  • Gaita: truthfulness in politics#2
  • Raymond Gaita: truth in politics#1
  • community activism
  • defending community
  • communitarianism & politics
  • Communitarianism & place
  • the roots of democracy
  • communitarianism
  • discounting democracy
  • community?
  • the decline of democratic public life
  • Goodby democracy?
  • Schmitt: Legality and Legitimacy
  • a shock
  • the love of power
  • marriage is for some
  • Downsizing democracy: the FTA
  • decline of citizenship?
  • Greer: Whitefella jump up
  • Greer: whitefella anxiety in Australia
  • Empire: multitude & prophets
  • Empire: asking questions
  • Empire: the political
  • Empire: Summary
  • Empire: double-headed eagle#2
  • Empire: the two headed eagle
  • separation of powers
  • Reading Strauss in the light of Peter Costello's Christian ethics
  • Leo Strauss#3
  • Leo Strauss#2
  • Empire: serpentine struggles
  • Empire: Marx's old mole
  • creating public spaces
  • more of the same
  • Folly of empire
  • Empire: the multitude
  • Empire: nation state & democracy
  • Empire: internationalism
  • Empire: bringing philosophy in
  • Empire: literary criticism
  • Empire: the owl of Minerva
  • Empire: drama and narrative
  • Empire: tragic narrarives
  • Empire & the underside of modernity
  • Empire & regional integration
  • Empire: Free trade
  • Empire & place
  • Empire & ecological place
  • Empire: localism & deliberative democracy
  • Empire & progress
  • Empire: alternatives
  • Empire: misinterpretrations
  • Empire: A Review
  • Fear's Empire
  • Empire & the dollar standard
  • American conservatism
  • Empire: sovereignty
  • Empire: Intervention
  • Empire: room to move?
  • conservatism
  • Empire: Global civil society
  • Empire: media & legitimacy
  • Empire: communications
  • Empire: corporations
  • Empire: Corporations
  • Empire: biopolitical production
  • Empire: Deleuze & desire
  • Empire: modernity and biopolitics
  • Empire: Biopower
  • Empire: having some problems
  • Empire: paradox of power
  • Empire: from Marx to Deleuze
  • Empire: Foucault, disciplinary society & biopower
  • Empire: Hegel, public authority & civil society
  • Empire: Ch1.#11- Universal Values
  • anwering questions
  • Empire: Ch.1#10
  • police action+universal values
  • Empire: Chapter1#9
  • Empire: Ch1#8
  • Empire: Ch.1#7
  • Empire: Ch1.#6
  • Deleuze: machines
  • Empire: Ch1#5
  • Hegel, Hardt & Negri
  • Empire: A genealogy of right
  • a destitute time
  • "radical chic" Deleuzians?
  • Rorty: Terror and freedom
  • Empire: Ch.1#3
  • Empire: theory + world power
  • Empire: Chapter 1
  • Negri
  • Revisioning Australia
  • Empire: Preface#3
  • Empire:Preface#2
  • Hardt & Negri's Empire: Preface
  • Bridges over the Continental Analytic Divide
  • Analytic-Continental divide
  • divided schools
  • then and now
  • the politics of abortion
  • Liberal closure
  • political fluff
  • Politics: fear and myth
  • lobbyists & public reason
  • Political conflict
  • Multilateralism
  • Listening
  • a question
  • Moral duties to other states
  • American hegemony
  • Political reason & emotion
  • unreason of political reason
  • the media prism
  • Myth and market forces
  • Hubris
  • one truth
  • Destruction in an enlightened age
  • Schmitt: Why the turn to Roman Catholicism?
  • Schmitt's turn to Catholicism
  • Schmitt: abstract reason v romantic sensibility
  • it used to be different once
  • Carl Schmitt's Hegelian move
  • Weber's call to a politics of responsibility
  • Schmitt & Weber
  • Returning to Carl Schmitt
  • cliches
  • public language & public realm
  • doing their job
  • Globalism and globalization
  • Globalization#6: the nation-state reappears
  • the veil of political language
  • Democracy and Language
  • death of political language#4
  • Globalization#5: the turn away
  • crucifying the economy
  • Gloablization#4
  • the main game
  • Globalization#3: Form and content
  • public language#4
  • Globalization#2
  • the decay of globalisation
  • Public language#3
  • Philosophy in public life
  • Don Watson: Death Sentence
  • public language#2
  • public language
  • bodies in the forum
  • lived being
  • Merleau-Ponty
  • towards bodily empowerment.
  • bodily existence
  • starting over again
  • lived bodies
  • philosophy conference
  • bodies and places
  • clearing away place
  • land ethic
  • Mars: raw images
  • Universities: hot debate
  • Re-thinking wilderness
  • conflicts over wilderness
  • Montaigne
  • Social Darwinism in Australia
  • Xmas day
  • Third Way = pragmatism?
  • The enabling state
  • philosophy, wedge politics, environment
  • Third Way & Indigneous Australians#2
  • The Third Way & Indigenous people
  • The Third Way: its civil society stupid
  • a story with a moral
  • governing unemployment
  • addressing unemployment
  • A definition of the political
  • welfare-to-work strategy
  • citizenship & welfare-to-work
  • a note on the Third Way
  • anti-globalization
  • Cartoons & rhetoric
  • Globalization & local communities
  • Globalization and social democracy
  • In defence of the Senate
  • governing the global economy
  • the borderless world of globalised finance
  • in passing & taking note
  • resisting the Stoics on anger
  • the future is global
  • Restraining anger?
  • a question
  • its so lonely and inhuman
  • Atomised
  • the heavenly city of cyberspace
  • It's crude but...
  • Resignation
  • Stoic governance of anger
  • judicial activism=end of democracy?
  • Seneca on anger
  • anger
  • free market + democratic deliberation
  • philosophy in Australia
  • Citizenship: there and gone
  • tight judicial logic?
  • Democracy & the High Court of Australia
  • Politics and the High Court
  • Citizenship: a belated appearance
  • nihilism approaches?
  • Australian Constitution & citizenship
  • Edward Said: due consideration
  • Meditations#2
  • becoming one people
  • Constitutional interpretation & power
  • Constitutional Silence?
  • Meditations
  • Hermeneutics, free speech & democracy#2
  • Hermeneutics, free speech & democracy#1
  • mapping hermeneutics
  • towards a post
  • Gadamer, conversation, public reason
  • an experiment
  • doing philosophy differently?
  • in passing
  • Hegel, recognition, Croc Festivals
  • philosophy and rhetoric
  • bioethics: philosophy meets the marketplace
  • a trail of blood
  • private/public
  • blogging and democracy
  • a libertarian tale of confusions
  • reason and emotion in history
  • writing outside academia
  • Today's little story
  • the light hand
  • I couldn't resist
  • that rough beast of futurity
  • Beyond economics: character & citizenship
  • a moral hole
  • its the same old song
  • a certain intelletual oomph
  • limiting democratic politics
  • reaching out beyond academe
  • a quote from Burke
  • political correctness
  • work blogs
  • Ecological gaps
  • the future of the humanities
  • Costello: The IMF man?
  • raising a question
  • No modernist seriousness here
  • the nihilism of academe
  • what sort of changes?
  • river keepers challenge growth fetish
  • Humanities: a double bind
  • the heart of the nation
  • one for the money
  • prejudice
  • tweaking the axioms
  • Philosophy & the neocons
  • bloggers as active citizens
  • being sceptical about economics
  • bloggers as the new public intellectuals
  • after economic rationalism
  • breaking the I/P mirror
  • philosophy in political life
  • Weblogs: just a little stall in the market?
  • beyond market rationality
  • He who is sovereign
  • bias as pre-judgement
  • a critic of liberal modernity
  • scoring points' is routine practice
  • writing history
  • Derrida: anything goes?
  • Are the universities an instrument?
  • Philosophy & dogs
  • the disappearing public university
  • media, democracy, philosophy
  • academics and blogging
  • education for citizenship
  • philosophy as a way of life
  • behind the razzle dazzle
  • a life for PhD's outside academia
  • Derrida made relevant
  • American nationalism
  • The return of assimilation
  • Take no prisoners?
  • naive utilitarians
  • beyond dead white men
  • Question Mark
  • Maggie baby
  • critique as irritation
  • philosophical humor
  • whither the humanities?
  • the academic philosophy/theory distinction
  • Academia: it is a miserable place
  • lead ballons
  • a bit of this way and that
  • a few reflections on a holiday
  • On holidays
  • Poisoning Ourselves
  • New pathways
  • A challenge to Libertarians
  • sorting things out
  • the road to poverty
  • going post-national
  • Nationalism
  • The media dogs of war
  • Wogblog and Counter-Enlightenment
  • Tragedy
  • eye of the eagle
  • Patriotism
  • learning to speak publicly.
  • The more things change
  • Iraq, War and Hegel's revenge
  • Hegel vs the neocons
  • Academic breakdown
  • Complex stuff
  • The new is the old
  • Weblogs, Watchdogs, Democracy
  • A dead heart?
  • A quote
  • Academia Sucks?
  • Thinking against the market
  • a puzzle
  • Academia & State: the Great Divide
  • Post analytic philosophy
  • Rhetoric mets the Web
  • Roots of philosophy.com
  • The ship of state and the storms of nature
  • Writing Philosophy
  • Philosophical journalism
  • Having fun with Philosophers
  • Empire
  • The essay
  • Foucault on Kant & Enlightenment
  • Water and Enlightenment dreaming
  • Populism and the common life
  • Do you still believe?
  • Writing of Oz History: Rhetoric, Dialogue, Tradition
  • More on Australian Conservatism
  • Australian Conservatism?
  • The storm we call progress.
  • Just a note
  • Freedom and Terror
  • In the politicians we trust?
  •