More Thoughts on International Justice
After getting myself up to date with the slow progress of the Khmer Rouge trials, I’ve put together a new article for the London-based libertarian magazine Spiked Online, which has since been published and ‘syndicated’ (i.e. copied and pasted) to a number of Cambodian news blogs. In my piece, I take a critical look at...
Cambodia: whose tribunal is it anyway?
The West is turning the trial of surviving members of the Khmer Rouge – its former allies – into a piece of self-promoting political theatre
Windschuttle Redux
To my amusement, a link to my last post about Keith Windschuttle cropped up in an anti-left love-in on Daily Telegraph journalist Tim Blair’s weblog. In between I’m-not-sorry-cos-I-didn’t-do-it screeds, one Windschuttle admirer described me as: …a left-leaning blogger who encountered [Windschuttle’s] work at university and secretly holds respect for [him]. Thus proving that taking the...
'Sorry Day' & Keith Windschuttle
After another late night out at Myer’s Place with the lovely Mary K, I regrettably slept through the whole of Kevin Rudd’s historical (but unconscionably early) ‘sorry’ speech. Rudd’s formal parliamentary motion, penned by the cant-prone Jenny Macklin and her advisors, was straight to the point, if a little syntactically-challenged. But from all accounts, Rudd’s...
The Moralities of Socialism
Recently, my good friend Jess sent me the link to an excellent essay from the New York Times magazine about evolutionary psychology and its possible link to the origins of human morality. Harvard professor Steven Pinker argues that humans may have a biologically-determined compass that underpins all of our moral and ethical impulses. Drawing on...
Why I’m For Obama
If hypocrisy, as one writer claims, is an unavoidable — even integral — part of democratic politics, then the two remaining Democratic nominees for president are locked in a dead heat. Both stridently oppose a war that they once supported as members of Congress, and both employ a high-minded liberal rhetoric littered with non-partisan clichés...
The Pakistani Spectator
It seems that my humble blog has acquired some new fans in Pakistan. Against all expectations, I was recently interviewed by Ghazala Khan of The Pakistani Spectator, an online magazine covering ‘views, news and opinions on Pakistani Politics in specific and world politics in general with respect to Pakistan’. I fielded questions about my blog,...
