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What role did religion play for Latin Americans at the polling booth? Plus, we hear from one of the world's first female Orthodox rabbis, and a historian who says we're living in an "ahistoric age."

Dr Sarah Irving-Stonebraker says that, today we live in an "ahistoric age," where history is being reduced to ideology, and used to fight in the culture wars.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with Australian journalist and former prime minister, the Honourable Tony Abbott. They discuss Australia's role on the world stage, the problems facing their economy and culture, how the quasi-cult of carbon threatens the developing world, why new religions propagate where faith has been abdicated, and the looming threat of war as China destabilizes while Putin pushes forward against Ukraine. Tony Abbott was elected prime minister by the Australian people on September 7, 2013, and served for two years. In that time, the carbon tax and mining tax were repealed, free trade agreements were finalized with China, Japan and Korea; the people smuggling trade from Indonesia to Australia were halted, and Australia became the second largest military contributor to the US-led campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq. Currently, he is a director of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, serves on the council of the Australian War Memorial, and is an adviser to the UK Board of Trade. He's patron to several charities, including Soldier On, the International Sports Promotion Society, and Worldwide Support for Development.  - Links - For The Honourable Tony Abbott Website https://tonyabbott.com.au/ On X https://twitter.com/hontonyabbott?lang=en 

In Episode 117 of the No Limitations podcast Knowing Your Own Mind, Blenheim Partners' Gregory Robinson speaks to the 28th Prime Minister of Australia, The Hon Tony Abbott AC. He was the Member for Warringah in the Australian Parliament from 1994 to 2019. In an open conversation, we unpack Tony's thoughts on the current state of Australia, its leadership and standing on the world stage. Considering where he sees society heading from the debate in Australia leading up to the referendum and the cost-of-living crisis to the ongoing conflicts overseas and shifts in the power balance, we discuss his concerns for the country and the world at large. Finally, we uncover his thoughts on leadership and how it starts with one's self. Tony served as Prime Minister for two years following the 2013 Australian federal election. He was the Leader of the Opposition from 2009 to 2013 and also served as a Cabinet Minister during the Howard Government. Currently, Tony is a Director of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, serves on the council of the Australian War Memorial, and is an adviser to the UK Board of Trade. He is a patron to several charities, including Soldier On, the International Sports Promotion Society, and the Worldwide Support for Development. In 2020, he was appointed as a Companion of the Order of Australia and in 2022, he was conveyed with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun.   Please note: this episode was recorded on 15 May 2023.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the 2022 Ramsay-Campion Great Books Podcast Series.The series on the Greeks continues as we turn from Homeric epic and Sophoclean tragedy to Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, a work that not only helps establish the contours of a new literary genre, the History, but in doing so becomes one of the most influential works of political theory in the Western canon. In this fifth podcast Dr Stephen McInerney is joined by Professor Simon Haines, CEO of the Ramsay Centre and Dr Jeremy Bell, Lecturer in History and Philosophy at Campion College, Sydney.Dr Stephen McInerney, Professor Simon Haines, Dr Jeremy Bell

Welcome to the 2022 Ramsay-Campion Great Books Podcast Series.In this podcast we turn our attention to the fifth century and to Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, one of the Theban plays, which picks up the story of the family of Oedipus, the late King of Thebes, just after the civil war between his sons, Eteocles and Polynices, and opens with the two surviving members of Oedipus's family, Antigone and Ismene. The play explores the conflict between these sisters, which centres on the larger conflict between individual conscience and the State, and a cluster of other animating tensions: between the old and the new, custom and innovation, and the differences between men and women – all of which are explored as part of the larger search for the meaning of human existence and the nature of human flourishing. In this fourth podcast Dr Stephen McInerney, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Western Tradition at Campion College is joined by Professor Simon Haines, CEO of The Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation and Dr Laurel Moffatt, Senior Fellow with Anglican Deaconess Ministries.

Bri Lee is a lawyer and writer. Her books include the award winning Eggshell Skull and Beauty. Her latest is Who Gets to Be Smart.Who Gets to Be Smart begins in Oxford. Bri Lee is visiting a friend there on a Rhodes Scholarship. As she wanders the lanes and cobbles of Oxford's campuses Lee thinks back to Virginia Woolf decrying the iniquity that sees Women scholars living in relative squalor compared to their male peers.Woolf wrote about this iniquity, positing the solution that women needed A Room of One's Own, and five hundred pound a year.Nearly a century later Bri Lee realises that this is not enough. That equality within the system does not address the systemic privilege and bias that props up the system, creating a framework of elitism that maintains power in the hands of a few. Where Woolf worries about the lack of money for women, Lee questions where the money comes from. In the money and power that prop up the colleges she finds a system of institutionalising education that reinforces the very systems that fund them.Who Gets to Be Smart challenges the rationale of the academy and its stranglehold on so-called intelligence. The books takes the reader on a tour through the racist legacy of Cecil Rhodes and his bequest that founded the Rhodes scholarship, through to the contemporary parallel of the Australian Ramsay Centre. The Ramsay Centre's mission to fund scholarships in ‘western civilisation' highlights that tertiary institutions are not simply neutral spaces of so-called higher learning, but active participants in a process of consolidating power through ideas.Lee asks the reader to consider the the concept of Kyriarchy and Kyriarchal systems. Now there are multiple wonderful, much better qualified explainers of Kyriarchy including Bri Lee and Omid Tofighian whom Lee engages with (Read them if my examples make no sense). My understanding of Kyriarchy is that it is interrelated systems in our social world that work to keep us off-balance and subservient, and thereby controlling us indirectly. Kyriarchy plays on your job insecurity and worries about getting a home loan, even as you strive to have an Insta-perfect life and send your child to the best school. And Kyriarchy relies on multiple, intersecting systems that worsen as you move away from my white-bread example above. Kyriarchy is particularly cruel if you do not follow the dominant religion, speak another language and don't look like your neighbour.Who Gets to Be Smart explores the myriad ways in which knowledge is held and denied and at its heart is the way that systems of power work to keep us always further down, while looking up. It asks to question why we are so fractured, viewing potential friends and allies as competition, while raising up our oppressors as paragons.Throughout Who Gets to Be Smart Lee explores the various mechanisms of centralising power through smarts. We are treated to the dubious history of ‘intelligence' and intelligence testing, a system that has sought to simplify a complex system and sort us all into our places. School systems and the ongoing battle for funding in Australia comes under the microscope.As the training grounds for the type of institutionalised thinking the book discusses they are incredibly unequally served. Lee gives us the numbers on this iniquity and explores how a country that prides itself on having an egalitarian spirit will also commit to Olympic level mental gymnastics to justify this inequality.Who Gets To Be Smart is an important book for a world that feels forever to be dividing itself along ideological lines, because it seeks to examine how those ideologues got where they are and what maintains their status. It puts in the readers hands a guide to pulling back the curtain.Book Club is produced and presented by Andrew PopleWant more great conversations with Australian authors?Discover this and many more conversations on Final Draft every week from 2ser.

Professor Simon Haines is a distinguished scholar, teacher and author, and a passionate advocate for the humanities. CEO of The Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, Simon joins Rob to discuss the genesis and origins of liberalism. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ CIS promotes free choice and individual liberty and the open exchange of ideas. CIS encourages debate among leading academics, politicians, media and the public. We aim to make sure good policy ideas are heard and seriously considered so that Australia can prosper. Follow CIS on our Socials; Twitter - https://twitter.com/CISOZ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CentreIndependentStudies/ Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-centre-for-independent-studies/

Professor Simon Haines is a distinguished scholar, teacher and author, and a passionate advocate for the humanities. CEO of The Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, Simon joins Rob to discuss the genesis and origins of liberalism. Today, we are more aware than ever about what's happening in the world, with 24-7 news cycles and the advent of social media we have everything at our fingertips. Yet, do we ever stop to reflect on the principles of our society, values, and beliefs? on this program, Rob seeks to explore the state of Classical Liberalism here in Australia, and abroad and asks do Classical Liberal views still fit in with our hyperconnected modern world? Are you looking for sound, thought-provoking conversations on current affairs, politics, and culture from a Classical Liberal perspective? If yes, you are in the right place. Liberalism in Question engages some of our society's most prominent researchers, political figures, and free speech advocates --finding out their views on the state Classical Liberalism. Listen to the playlist here: https://soundcloud.com/liberalisminquestion

What is the discipline of Literature, and how can a Cathlic benefit from an immersion in it? Special Guest: Dr Stephen McInerney, deputy CEO and academic director at the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation. Resources: Website: https://www.ramsaycentre.org/ (Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation.)

An issue that kept coming back into the higher educator sector this year was the Ramsay Centre’s Western Civilisation degree and its attendant negotiations with the University of Wollongong, the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland. To date, only the University of Wollongong has committed to the western civilisation program, with the Ramsay Centre walking away from a negotiated deal with the University of Sydney recently. The Ramsay degree also failed to attract enough interest at UQ. In some ways, the western civilisation degree was played out as a sort of culture war between the left and right and members of the Academic Senate at the University of Wollongong initiated litigation before withdrawing it after considering the costs involved. Another important story this year originated from ABC TV’s Four Corners Program. In an episode called ‘Cash Cows’ allegations were made that some Australian universities were waiving important English requirement tests for international students who did not have the requisite IT skills to study a Master of IT, for instance. A coterie of academics, frustrated by what they believed was a clear case of putting profit before quality, blew the whistle on the issues occurring at Murdoch and one academic in particular has faced serious repercussions, . These issues and more are revisited in our year in review and I look forward to bringing you the stories that matter to you next year. Wade Zaglas, Education Editor for Campus Review.

We’re joined by Matt Halton to talk about his new Overland essay on the Ramsay Centre, ‘Ramsay, Marx, and the ghosts of the Western canon’. We then give our obligatory Joker takes and transition seamlessly to a discussion of the shorter working week: what kind of shift does it signify and what are the opportunities it presents? And what's the difference between the shorter work week as a left project vs. a tech bro scam? Finally, towards the end of the episode, Maddy introduces us to the phenomenon of Life Expectancy Advocates.Matt’s piece: overland.org.au/2019/10/ramsay-ma…he-western-canon/Andrew Beitzel in IndigenousX: indigenousx.com.au/decolonising-not-at-uni/Mark Fisher's ‘Exiting the Vampire Castle’: www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…ampire-castle/Matt’s piece on horny mysticism: www.floodmedia.org/articles/monste…-of-the-unknownMatt’s piece on the politics of museums: www.floodmedia.org/articles/lost-creaturesPatreon: www.patreon.com/floodmedia

The Chief Executive of Ramsay Centre Professor Haines has rejected The University of Sydney's latest proposal to modify the Centre's Western Civilisation degree. In a letter sent to USYD's Vice-Chancellor Dr Michael Spence on Thursday, Haines wrote that the Ramsay board - comprising former prime ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott - was unanimous in its decision to reject Spence's modified program. Listen to the podcast for more detail on the decision.

After numerous unsuccessful discussions with universities around the country, the controversial Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation recently signed an agreement with the University of Wollongong to begin offering a new Bachelor of Arts in Western Civilisation. Current president of the UOW student union Chloe Rafferty talks about the campaign opposing the establishment of the Centre at the university and how this played out in the media. Then Imogen Grant, 2018 president of the student union at the University of Sydney, provides an overview of the very public campaign to stop the Ramsay Centre being set up at that university.

The barbarians are winning: the University of Wollongong has taken the first step to killing the Ramsay Centre, while in the UK 'misgendering' will score you a visit from the police (after a five-month investigation!)

Greetings, my tetrachromatids. Internet and University are to blame for the lack of an episode last week and the late episode this week. But with those problems resolved, we bring you this, our thirty-second episode, a scrabbly thing looking back at the last few weeks. First up, Venezuela! What can we take from the current clusterfuck and apply to discourse with those folks who use it as a holistic condemnation of socialism? Then Kieran's got a little kicker on there in the form of three juicy climate change nuggets sure to suck the wind out of your lungs.   In stories: Would a -rose by any other name smell so much like Butt?; Georgina Downer is the latest Coalition person to fuck up the integrity of campaign advertising, and she's not even an MP; Darcy does this new gimmick where he experiments with playing devil's advocate for stuff. Here, he jumps to the defense of Robert Richter; and lastly, Kieran walks you through the Ramsay Centre curriculum.

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In this special bonus episode, I give my take on five big academic freedom issues from this year: Ramsay Centre, ministerial vetoes, the 'free speech crisis', academic mobbing and anonymous journals.Links:Read about the Ramsay Centre here. Read the full statement from ANU Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor here. Read some of the backlash against the ANU’s decision here and here. Read about former Education Minister Simon Birmingham’s vetoes here. Read the IPA’s latest Campus Free Speech audit here. Read Glyn Davis’ full speech about the confected free speech crisis here. Read the petition against Dr Noah Carl’s new Fellowship here. If you want to make up your own mind on Dr Noah Carl’s work, look here. Read Joanna Williams’ Spiked article on mobbing of Dr Noah Carl here. Read about the new Journal of Controversial Ideas here.

Aaaaand, we're BACK. In this new episode, Ben takes us down the Roman roads of Western civilisation, via The Ramsay Centre's inability to find a host university. We explore how progressives are riddled with contradiction, and how Tony Abbott is personally responsible for the awkward position this Course of Western Civilisation finds itself in. This visual diary was too busy for a cover image, but we very much wanted to share it with you. Email us at theleverpodcast@gmail.com with thoughts and feedback, or nominate our next urgent topic.  

In the first part of this special extended episode of PEACEcast, Dave and Joel talk Legion and toxic masculinity, as well as the recent controversy over "Western Civilisation studies" being promoted in Australian universities by the Ramsay Centre. Hosts: Dave Taylor Joel Harrison Producer: Liam Bray

With Julia's PhD submitted (!!!) and Jodie back from her travels, the band is finally back together! Jodie starts us off, (2:04) asking if a theory from psychology be applied to a whole population--specifically, whether US president Trump's apparent reversal on family separation work as a negotiating tactic, the so-called "door-in-the-face" technique. She asks, can we expect a public response to such a gambit resemble a private one, or a mass response to resemble individual ones? Simon, citing the narrow and homogeneous populations that usually take part in psychology studies, argues against thinking such theories can be scaled up: "I think humans are constantly creating and redefining and troubling everything we do, and every time we try and say, ‘well, this is a hard rule for human beings,' we get astounded by how it's not in fact the case." Simon (6:14) recounts his recent appearance on Counterpoint from Radio National, during which the host asked him to predict what he thought might happen next in Iranian politics. It got him wondering about the role of researchers in the humanities, and whether our work is actually contributing to changing, even improving, the world. He asks, "can we, as anthropologists, have a more productive role in predicting how society can and should be?" Julia points to the development of theory in anthropology, and suggests that, while anthropology isn't an experimental science, we do test hypotheses against theories, and refine those theories in response to our findings. Julia (11:34) brings up the recent controversy over ANU's rejection of a bequest from the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, and asks, why do people fall so easily into opposition to one another, even over topics they have no information about? "There's this need to find a clear narrative quite quickly--it just seems that things are getting increasingly nasty, and I'm wondering if you guys think there is any hope for people slowing down a bit and finding the nuances rather than clutching for these quick opinions on topics?" One thing the whole table can agree on: we truly are living in the age of People Talking About Things They Don't Know About. Find ANU vice chancellor Brian Schmidt's statement on the Ramsay Centre negotiations here: http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/vcs-update-our-viewpoints-on-ramsay Last, Ian (17:42) talks about trying to bring the writings of the people he studies into his own dissertation. Should the emic, insider analyses written by the members of a society be treated as "cultural traces," or integrated with the peer-reviewed Western scholarship we're meant to draw on? As Simon notes, "as anthropology moves haltingly towards a greater decolonization, there is this greater attempt to incorporate Indigenous and non-Western ways of being and understanding the world. Making those academically equivalent to Western materials still requires you to push heavily against many years of accreted tradition in anthropology. Doing this, making them equal, I think in some ways is still a radical act at the moment." This anthropology podcast is supported by the Australian Anthropological Society, the schools of Culture, History, and Language and Archaeology and Anthropology at Australian National University, and the Australian Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, and is produced in collaboration with the American Anthropological Association. Music by Pete Dabro: dabro1.bandcamp.com Show notes by Ian Pollock