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Why did White Australia end?

Neville Meaney on Australia muddling out of its Britishness

Jan 17 • Oz

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Elena Ferrante's 'My Brilliant Friend'

Beauty, Agency, and Ferrante's Humiliation of the Writer

Jan 11 • Oz

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9

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54 Observations about Mexico

Social structure, state capacity, food, music, and Trotsky

Jan 4 • Oz

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25

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December 2025

2025 Kvetching & Books

A request and a 2025 wrap

Dec 22, 2025 • Oz

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Watching the dead

fragments from the last few days

Dec 18, 2025 • Oz

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4

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The Bondi Massacre was a Choice

Australia let this evil come and fester here.

Dec 15, 2025 • Oz

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22

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Male inadequacy drives infertility

Independent careers are insurance against bad husbands.

Dec 13, 2025 • Oz

63

57

11

November 2025

Notes & Links

AI, Hugh White, journalism, power & conspiracies, the Mossad, Moby Dick, and more

Nov 29, 2025 • Oz

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They don't want you to know

you can just dance with your daughters

Nov 9, 2025 • Oz

54

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The strange flatness of being

There is no hierarchy to suffering

Nov 1, 2025 • Oz

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8

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October 2025

We are the children of Cain

We have chosen idolatry in urban toil over piety and freedom

Oct 25, 2025 • Oz

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Stoner

To a worm in horseradish, the whole world is horseradish

Oct 18, 2025 • Oz

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