Monthly Archives: January 2022

Heads Up, California: Sydney Has Figured Out How to Get the Rents Down

From Reason.com: Sydney, Australia, may not be New York or London or Los Angeles, but it’s a big city with a population approaching five million. It’s got more people than the San Francisco area. But unlike San Francisco (or Los … Continue reading

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Did January 6 riots threaten our democracy? (1-7-21)

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Top 10 Aussie sayings to restore homeostasis (1-6-21)

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Broken societies: Inequality, cohesion and the middle-class dream

‘There is no evidence that the ethos of a people can be changed according to plan. It is one thing to engineer consent by the techniques of mass manipulation; to change a people’s fundamental view of the world is quite … Continue reading

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What Is Social Cohesion?

Christian Albrecht Larsen writes: * I suggest that we define social cohesion as the belief held by citizens of a given nation-state that they share a moral community, which enables them to trust each other… The very discussion of social … Continue reading

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