Sitemap - 2026 - Nicholas Gruen
The late Jason Arday: Gulliver among the Lilliputians?
Academia: from inefficient effectiveness to efficient ineffectiveness
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). Full guide
The public goods we couldn’t imagine
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) guide
Social fabric: The Price of What Survives
Synthetic (AI) generated towns
Rearranging the deckchairs on HMS Unserious
Is Rogernomics the answer? Yes and no
The Boaty McBoatface factor: Irony to the rescue
Your life: Load bearing: or bear loading?
Winter among the miracles: and the rent-seekers
Palestine as ideological superstorm
Hobart Stadium to cost $1.5 billion and counting
Swapping trenches in the gender wars
Are nicer LLMs less truthful? (Hint: yes)
Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once
Working class + Plutocrats => Fascism
Terrorists 3: Rational self-interest: 0
Should we have called fascism 'gangsterism'?
Utopianism or bust! How about neither?
Are you moral typecasting (but of course you are!)
Cometh the hour, cometh the fruitcake
Milestones of intellectual progress
Louis Theroux and the manosphere
Don’t tell us your vision. Where’s your red line?
The joys and disappointments of AI
Equality as the consolation prize
Societies collapse for lack of virtue: Srsly!
The two giant markets gnawing at our soul
Sociopathy as a service: Facebook edition
Great speeches and truth telling