“Two Terrible Decades” — a synopsis
Part One of the book is a detailed account of the founding of the International Chamber of Commerce in the aftermath of the Great War of 1914–18, and of the wretched provisions of the Treaty...
View ArticleBezos in Space
A dream of space Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, is spending a billion dollars each year on a project to bring thousands of people into space in the coming decades. Not just for...
View ArticleWhat happened to the Moon?
July 20, 1969… Fifty years! A lifetime ago, the Moon landing seemed like a new horizon. But it wasn’t. On the twentieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing (July 1989), President G. W. Bush,...
View ArticleA Broader Compass — Part 2 of A Century of Commerce
This is the second of three parts of my centennial history of the International Chamber of Commerce. Part one of the history — “Two Terrible Decades” — is available here. This part covers the activity...
View ArticleNot all about the WTO
Years ago, in the early 2000’s, the WTO hired me to write several books about the Organisation and the treaties. I still sometimes get a request, although not from WTO, to “tell us all about...
View ArticlePanpsychism
A review of Philip Goff’s book Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
View ArticleEden and Ithaca
At the start of 2020, I read Genesis more closely for the first time (I wrote a memorandum of what I found) and completed my reading of Robert Fitzgerald’s translation of The Odyssey of Homer....
View ArticleNo warming trend in Victoria (AU)
The avowed determination of the Biden Administration to make its concerns about global warming a priority for government regulation and spending will, no doubt influence one way or another — by example...
View ArticleWhy no outrage?
The excellent @samirvama asked me, today, why Australians seem not to have reacted with outrage to their government’s reported abuses of personal liberties in their ‘zero COVID’ lockdowns. My answer,...
View ArticleThe Melbourne ‘climate emergency’
Of course, I’d be worried about sudden or adverse changes in the climate, too… if there were anything to worry about. But I can’t for the life of me (or you) see anything worrying in...
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