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Revisiting Hitchens: god is Not Great
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…
Peter Strempel
Aug 28
The lens of insanity
The lens of insanity
Philosophy does not mean abstract or arcane hairsplitting. Nor does it mean forever rehashing the ancients to fearfully avoid drawing…
Peter Strempel
Feb 6, 2023
Confessions of a journaller
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…
Peter Strempel
Jan 7, 2023
Liberal Party incompetence as policy
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…
Peter Strempel
Dec 27, 2022
Terry Hall: passing of an era
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…
Peter Strempel
Dec 21, 2022
Bourgeoisie lives its own hell
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…
Peter Strempel
Dec 12, 2022
Scorsese’s Irishman: sad farewell to an era
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.
Peter Strempel
Jan 14, 2020
Anonymity: death of democracy
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…
Peter Strempel
Jul 20, 2018
Ellroy bleeds for Hopkins
Ellroy bleeds for Hopkins
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Peter Strempel
Dec 30, 2017
Mark Felt: extended metaphor
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…
Peter Strempel
Dec 28, 2017
THE VIETNAM WAR (2017): Notes on the overpowering documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
THE VIETNAM WAR (2017): Notes on the overpowering documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
This story originally posted at Peter Strempel’s minority reports.
Peter Strempel
Oct 22, 2017
The Key Largo hypothesis: Brooks and Huston set the noir context
The Key Largo hypothesis: Brooks and Huston set the noir context
2017 Preface
Peter Strempel
Sep 10, 2017
TALKING TO THE RED RIGHT HAND
TALKING TO THE RED RIGHT HAND
Chapter two: Hannibal explains my preferences … to me
Peter Strempel
Aug 25, 2017
Thirty years tracking Hannibal Lecter
Thirty years tracking Hannibal Lecter
Imagine a world in which Hannibal Lecter was unknown. It existed until 1981, when Thomas Harris published the novel ‘Red Dragon’. My own…
Peter Strempel
May 3, 2017
Fonts of brutalism or soft persuasion
Fonts of brutalism or soft persuasion
Graphic designers are fond of sleight of hand: having it both ways. If you notice typography, they say, you’ve already failed. Meaning that…
Peter Strempel
Oct 11, 2016
Hot tar, aching memory, Golda Meir, and the Yom Kippur
Hot tar, aching memory, Golda Meir, and the Yom Kippur
A month ago, and thirty-seven years, Golda Meir died, aged eighty.
Peter Strempel
Jan 10, 2016
Underworld USA: America unimagined
Underworld USA: America unimagined
Ellroy’s homecoming in three movements
Peter Strempel
Dec 24, 2015
Objective journalism is not!
Objective journalism is not!
Reading the ABC’s Alan Sunderland commenting on objective journalism had me struggling to make out what it was he was trying to say.
Peter Strempel
Sep 15, 2015
Luminous realm of values
Luminous realm of values
Christopher Hitchens used to tell a story. A good natured but stupid ‘nature’ class teacher, Mrs Jean Watts, had one day ventured to…
Peter Strempel
Aug 15, 2015
Offended? Kiss my arse!
Offended? Kiss my arse!
Originally posted to Minority Reports on 22 January, 2015
Peter Strempel
Feb 13, 2015
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