Tuesday, February 10, 2026

From Invitation to Cancellation: Lessons from the Adelaide Writers’ Week Debacle

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  From Invitation to Cancellation: Lessons from the Adelaide Writers’ Week Debacle by Russell Blackford   On 8 January 2026, the Ade...
Friday, December 19, 2025

An important distinction in the debate over hate speech, jihadism, and s.18C of the Racial Discrimination Act

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The following is a tweet that I made today on the platform formerly known as Twitter. I'm republishing it here (in slightly edited form)...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

My contribution to a new piece at The Conversation

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Over at The Conversation, five people (including me) respond to the question of whether democracy is the worst system of government except f...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Article in The Philosophers' Magazine: An Air of Unreality

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Back in October, I published this article in The Philosophers' Magazine . It begins as follows: On 7 October 2023, the terrorist organi...

There is no such thing as Islamophobia ...

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I'm reposting the following comment that I made earlier today on my Twitter (now X) account... Your occasional reminder that there is no...
Friday, September 12, 2025

New by me at The Conversation: "‘Liberal’ has become a term of derision in US politics – the historical reasons are complicated"

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Check out this new piece by me at The Conversation , where I review Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals) by  Kevin ...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Is Steve Bannon a fascist? I discussed it with Grok

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Steve Bannon's views include theocratic, nationalist, authoritarian, and patriarchal elements, so much so that I once referred to them i...