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Revisiting Hitchens: god is Not Great

Watching again the 2007 recorded debates of Christopher Hitchens, arguing the case for anti-theism against the simplistic conceptions of…

Aug 28

Christopher Hitchens, Washington, 1990s

Aug 28

Peter Strempel
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Minority Reports

The lens of insanity

Philosophy does not mean abstract or arcane hairsplitting. Nor does it mean forever rehashing the ancients to fearfully avoid drawing…

Feb 7, 2023

Photomontage with lenses

Feb 7, 2023

Peter Strempel
in
Minority Reports

Confessions of a journaller

Keeping a journal is something I have done since I was a child. It is so much part of my daily routine now that I tend to forget that it is…

Jan 8, 2023

Photo of my journal pages as banner illustration.

Jan 8, 2023

Peter Strempel
in
Minority Reports

Liberal Party incompetence as policy

Reading through the Liberal Party’s[1] review of its May 2022 election loss is a double-take exercise, perhaps explaining the poverty of…

Dec 27, 2022

Detail from Smyrna catastrophe.

Dec 27, 2022

Peter Strempel
in
Minority Reports

Terry Hall: passing of an era

A lot of famous people have died in the past few years. But I’ve never been overly maudlin about a celebrity death compared to one closer…

Dec 22, 2022

Terry Hall: passing of an era

Dec 22, 2022

Peter Strempel
in
Minority Reports

Bourgeoisie lives its own hell

In recent time I’ve been challenged more than once on using the term bourgeois. At first I dismissed such challenges as merely pettish, but…

Dec 12, 2022

William Blake’s Hell for Dante’s Inferno

Dec 12, 2022

Peter Strempel
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Minority Reports

Scorsese’s Irishman: sad farewell to an era

When I finally got around to watching The Irishman, I had still been isolated from conventional and amateur critique about the film.

Jan 15, 2020

Scorsese’s Irishman: sad farewell to an era

Jan 15, 2020

Peter Strempel
in
Minority Reports

Anonymity: death of democracy

The following is an edited excerpt from a letter in which I was putting forward my position on why social media deserve to be censored; an…

Jul 20, 2018

Anonymity: death of democracy

Jul 20, 2018

Peter Strempel
in
Minority Reports

Ellroy bleeds for Hopkins

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Dec 30, 2017

Ellroy bleeds for Hopkins

Dec 30, 2017

Peter Strempel
in
Minority Reports

Mark Felt: extended metaphor

Peter Landesman’s film Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017) annoyed the hell out of me. So much that I felt compelled…

Dec 28, 2017

Mark Felt: extended metaphor

Dec 28, 2017

Peter Strempel

Peter Strempel

Australian IT professional, analyst, writer. I don't do anodyne. Interests in culture, philosophy, political economy.

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