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Tuesday, 10 February 2026

The Conspiracy-Industrial Complex


Here is a linl to my article in the January-February 2026 edition of Quadrant magazine: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/the-u-s-a/the-conspiracy-industrial-complex/ 

Monday, 12 January 2026

"New Polity in Ohio" in the Winter 2025-6 edition of Salisbury Review magazine

                                               Saturday Night in Steubenville, 1950s


Downtown Steubenville, Ohio, not unlike the fictitious town in Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), possessed all the admired attributes of American life in the first half of the twentieth century – public spirit, locally-owned shops, full employment, a rising middle-class, thriving local cultural scene and so on. Somewhere along the line, however, the American dream turned into a nightmare. Fourth Street precinct, the main thoroughfare in Old Steubenville, became a run-down, burnt-out parody of its previous self – the place you went to buy drugs or sex or get yourself killed when you were tired of life. There is, nevertheless, a revival going on in Fourth Street, a renewal that tells us a lot about a different kind of conservatism.