Professorial piffle
BobKat showed last night on Q&A that he could name drop De Tocqueville, Mill and Shakespeare just as well as David Burchell, but with more actual sense (and fewer allusions to Montesquieu, Rousseau and “the ancient Athenians”). Funny how political [...]
Culture Wars: We have a winner, folks!
… and the prize for most tortuous attempt to diss “the elites” while invoking Aristophanes and Socrates goes to… David Burchell! Judges were impressed with his ability to entirely ignore the irony of indulging in a bit of elite bashing [...]
Federal election 2010: The ghost of culture wars past
Gary Sauer-Thompson at Public Opinion has skewered David Burchell’s latest op/ed, which includes a typification of two different types of voters:
Grumpy is the new black
Jason Wilson has a spiffy piece up at New Matilda on the rise and rise (and fall?) of the “trollumnist” – the op/ed columnist who provokes for advertising’s sake. He instances Miranda Devine, David Burchell, Planet Janet and Catherine Deveny. [...]
Woodstock un-remembered
Another risible article from David Burchell marks the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. In attacking “the Woodstock moment”, he criticises “un-remembering” (what a horrible coinage), the putative sin of the Boomers (whoever they may be), and in the process indicts himself [...]
Twitter, blogging, social media and the Iranian election
There’s been a ton of discussion about the role of social media in the protests ensuing on the Iranian election. Two notable posts are those by Rosanna Ryan at ABC Online and my QUT colleague Terry Flew at his eponymous [...]
Holidays in blogging hell
In The Blogging Revolution Antony Loewenstein takes us on a personal journey through some of the more difficult places in the world to blog. Iran, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and China. It’s a timely book on the importance and [...]
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