Jeff Rich
Jeff Rich is a writer, historian, and former government official. He writes weekly on world affairs and history at jeffrich.substack.com
Articles by Jeff Rich (11 total)
Progressive patriotism fails the independence test
Anthony Albanese's recent John Curtin oration sparked hope among some that Australia might pursue a more independent foreign policy.
Gazing at the Gorgon in Gaza
There are many world events now that are hard to take. Many horrors that are hard to watch. Many emotions that overwhelm us. In fear, we can freeze. Our hearts can turn to stone.
Across the US Empire, deranged shrieks drown out talk of peace
Historically ignorant strategists urge people to their deaths to sustain the illusion of American primacy. But the problem of dealing with a belligerent, crumbling, supremacist USA is the true geopolitical challenge of the age.
The West has lost the will for peace
Détente would be good. Dialogue and diplomacy would be better. An end to US-led covert actions and cold wars would be better still.
Australia’s aborted cultural decolonisation
Over the 50 years since Patrick White’s Nobel Prize, the progressive cultural nationalists, who borrowed White’s honour, challenged a tired old elite, and then generated a new cohort of tired old elites. They had broken with Britain, but embraced America and its fantasy of the universal progressive empire that dare not say its name. The Austral-Americans were born, and became the enforcers of today’s sterile regime culture.
The G20 returns to earth
The American diplomatic starship, USS Exceptionalism, fell to earth at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi.
The parasite state of consultants
The vices exposed by the consulting firm, PWC, allegedly leaking confidential tax information, are not limited to one firm’s malpractice. The scandal is not merely the overuse of consultants or the misuse of the public service. The scandal has exposed a loose thread in how we are governed.
Australia, little country lost
You could hear, when Biden squibbed the Quad, the Austral-Americans deflate.
The crooked timber of an unhappy, dangerous American Empire
Sealed inside its bubble, America today is steadfastly walking the unhappy, steady and confident gait of the Soviet Union.
The derangement of the American mind
The world, we have a problem. It is Houston.
The West’s grand Illusions in Ukraine
The Grand Illusions of the leaders of Western Democracies are crashing to defeat in Ukraine.