Over a period of eighty years, hundreds of critics have been laboring to improve the taste of the American people in music, literature, drama and politics. And today, as a result, Nevin, Tobani and Tosti are program favorites over Brahms, Beethoven and Bach; James Oliver Curwood is thirty thousand times more popular than James Branch [...]
Many people find it difficult to comprehend how taking Aboriginal children away from their parents could have been so popular an idea. Perhaps they would find it easier to understand if they were provided with a different degree of the same type of situation that is still popular today: government schooling. Children are forced to [...]
The Rudd government’s planned Australia 2020 conference, where “the best and brightest minds from across the country [will] tackle the long term challenges confronting Australia’s future,” is misguided. Although the Prime Minister’s acknowledgment that the Labor Party does not include “the best and brightest minds” deserves praise, the fact that the idea was developed or [...]
That daily reading the newspaper is a sign of intelligence. That some newspapers are better than others. That some universities are better than others. That some political parties are better than others. That brain is a fish food. That voting is a solemn thing, but politics is not. That it is one’s duty to vote, [...]