About Me

Sebastian Strangio is a freelance foreign correspondent based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Since 2008, he has reported widely on politics, human rights, business and environmental issues from across the Asia-Pacific.
Monthly archive June, 2008

A Disclaimer

In light of how popular my last post about conservative writers has been with a certain Herald Sun columnist and other conservatives, I think I should offer a few caveats: Firstly, as much as I love to bash the sillier brand of leftism, I see myself more as a libertarian, or classical liberal, than a...

Why Are Conservative Writers Funnier?

Last week, I sat through a whole morning at work pondering a thorny and controversial question: why are conservatives so often the best political writers? While you pause in outrage, rallying your favourite left-wing writers like so many dead-eyed Pokemons, consider the following rhetorical death match, in the vein of TV’s TNI X-Plosion: in the...