Military jingoists will cheer the greater capabilities of the nuclear attack submarines over their diesel counterparts, but the real story here isn’t their capabilities. It’s their missions.
Australia's Globalization Expert
Salvatore Babones Posts
September 11, 2001 was a preventable tragedy in a long line of preventable tragedies, but in the broader scope of history, it didn’t change a thing.
If we really care about our students and want them to learn, testing is the tough love that shows it.
Scratch the surface of many of our most prestigious institutions, and you’ll find embarrassing moral compromises hidden in the fine print, but in what can plausibly be claimed to be plain site.
If Universities Australia really wants to reduce sexual misconduct on campus, the most important thing it can do is publish those league tables. That would really make the headlines.
In 2018, the CIA gave up on pigeonholing the ideologies of foreign civil society organisations. It’s a multicultural lesson that’s well worth learning.
If the government really wants value for money from foreign policy research, with access to the best academic advice to boot, all it has to do is rig the rankings.
The Confucius Institutes are not the problem. The universities are the problem.