Alistair Kitchen
@alistairkitchen.bsky.social
reading, writing, reporting
Man I know so many people who should quit their jobs and go do this instead
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November 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Man I know so many people who should quit their jobs and go do this instead
Great essay here thebaffler.com/salvos/belit...
Belittled Magazine | Bruce Robbins
Thirty years after the Sokal affair, whither the little magazine?
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November 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Great essay here thebaffler.com/salvos/belit...
I for one think it’s good Tame Impala now sounds like Enya
October 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I for one think it’s good Tame Impala now sounds like Enya
I have a piece in the @thesaturdaypaper.com.au today about how superannuation disadvantages women www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/economy...
Confronting the superannuation gender gap
Advocates say more needs to be done as the tweaks made to superannuation tax offsets for low-income earners will barely help the quarter of women who retire in poverty.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
October 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I have a piece in the @thesaturdaypaper.com.au today about how superannuation disadvantages women www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/economy...
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Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.
To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?
To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?
Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club
Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.
To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?
To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?
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Read @sarahschwartz.bsky.social personal letter in The Guardian today | When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz
Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Read @sarahschwartz.bsky.social personal letter in The Guardian today | When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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In today’s @crikey.com.au, I wrote about the furore over Albanese’s appearance at the UK Labour conference.
The problem wasn’t that it was partisan, but that he intervened in the internal politics of UK Labour, backing Starmer against a rising chorus of critics.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/06/a...
The problem wasn’t that it was partisan, but that he intervened in the internal politics of UK Labour, backing Starmer against a rising chorus of critics.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/06/a...
Albanese’s speech to UK Labour wasn’t partisan — it was factional
Why has Albanese stuck his neck out for the incumbent? Because Starmer has, in many, ways emulated Albanese.
www.crikey.com.au
October 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM
In today’s @crikey.com.au, I wrote about the furore over Albanese’s appearance at the UK Labour conference.
The problem wasn’t that it was partisan, but that he intervened in the internal politics of UK Labour, backing Starmer against a rising chorus of critics.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/06/a...
The problem wasn’t that it was partisan, but that he intervened in the internal politics of UK Labour, backing Starmer against a rising chorus of critics.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/06/a...
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"It took more than an hour after the story broke, and was covered by several mastheads, to receive official notice from MUP; a group email confirming Meanjin’s immediate closure." ~Emma Sutherland, Archives Editor at Meanjin in @artshub.bsky.social this weekend.
www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...
www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...
I was the Archives Editor at Meanjin – its closure is baffling
As Archives Editor, Emma Sutherland had ‘read everything’ in Meanjin's past, but was unprepared for its troubled present.
www.artshub.com.au
October 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
"It took more than an hour after the story broke, and was covered by several mastheads, to receive official notice from MUP; a group email confirming Meanjin’s immediate closure." ~Emma Sutherland, Archives Editor at Meanjin in @artshub.bsky.social this weekend.
www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...
www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...
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I’m actually well-regarded and successful.
I wrote about the man everyone loves to hate, @mattyglesias.bsky.social . www.kitchencounter.blog/p/mr-opinion
Mr Opinion
Matt Yglesias and his discontents
www.kitchencounter.blog
October 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I’m actually well-regarded and successful.
I wrote about the man everyone loves to hate, @mattyglesias.bsky.social . www.kitchencounter.blog/p/mr-opinion
Mr Opinion
Matt Yglesias and his discontents
www.kitchencounter.blog
October 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I wrote about the man everyone loves to hate, @mattyglesias.bsky.social . www.kitchencounter.blog/p/mr-opinion
Wrote this the day Mahmoud Khalil was arrested. I was later deported for it.
Today a US federal judge confirmed what I wrote. open.substack.com/pub/alistair...
Today a US federal judge confirmed what I wrote. open.substack.com/pub/alistair...
On the deportation of dissent
When I, an international student in the US, began writing dispatches from the protests at Columbia last year I felt as though good things were once again possible.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Wrote this the day Mahmoud Khalil was arrested. I was later deported for it.
Today a US federal judge confirmed what I wrote. open.substack.com/pub/alistair...
Today a US federal judge confirmed what I wrote. open.substack.com/pub/alistair...
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Very proud of my colleagues right now--especially @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social and @alexabdo.bsky.social. But we could not have got this far without the superb trial lawyers at Sher Tremonte. Grateful to them for all of the time and energy they put into this case. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech
www.nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Very proud of my colleagues right now--especially @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social and @alexabdo.bsky.social. But we could not have got this far without the superb trial lawyers at Sher Tremonte. Grateful to them for all of the time and energy they put into this case. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
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This is such a useful resource from @penamerica.bsky.social
"What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A Watchlist"
Please consider letting others know that this exists.
pen.org/what-to-do-i...
"What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A Watchlist"
Please consider letting others know that this exists.
pen.org/what-to-do-i...
What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A Watchlist
We map out steps you can take right away, and steps you can take to build resilience longer term against doxing.
pen.org
September 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This is such a useful resource from @penamerica.bsky.social
"What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A Watchlist"
Please consider letting others know that this exists.
pen.org/what-to-do-i...
"What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A Watchlist"
Please consider letting others know that this exists.
pen.org/what-to-do-i...
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A lot of non-Americans feel embarrassed by their own fixation with the US. They shouldn’t.
September 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
A lot of non-Americans feel embarrassed by their own fixation with the US. They shouldn’t.
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"Far from being an amoral free-for-all, liberalism is, in fact, extremely difficult and constraining, far too much so for those who cannot endure contradiction, complexity, diversity, and the risks of freedom.”
― Judith N. Shklar, Ordinary Vices
― Judith N. Shklar, Ordinary Vices
I think fundamentally, the ability to care about the rights of a small and vulnerable minority (of whom you might know no members) is an important sign of whether you are committed to human rights out of principle, or out of mere convenience.
Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey
September 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"Far from being an amoral free-for-all, liberalism is, in fact, extremely difficult and constraining, far too much so for those who cannot endure contradiction, complexity, diversity, and the risks of freedom.”
― Judith N. Shklar, Ordinary Vices
― Judith N. Shklar, Ordinary Vices
September 20, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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September 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Hi all. An essay I’m very proud of, an elegy to the Queensland rainforests I grew up in, will appear in @islandmag.bsky.social 175.
September 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Hi all. An essay I’m very proud of, an elegy to the Queensland rainforests I grew up in, will appear in @islandmag.bsky.social 175.
Australia takes in roughly the same number of immigrants as the UK but has less than half the base population.
(Australian Labor’s immigration policies make UK Labour look like the DSA, for the record)
September 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Australia takes in roughly the same number of immigrants as the UK but has less than half the base population.
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Rally tomorrow morning: 9am at MUP
Hear from literary giants, show your support, #savemeanjin
Details at savemeanjin.org
Hear from literary giants, show your support, #savemeanjin
Details at savemeanjin.org
Save Meanjin
Save Meanjin from closure
savemeanjin.org
September 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Rally tomorrow morning: 9am at MUP
Hear from literary giants, show your support, #savemeanjin
Details at savemeanjin.org
Hear from literary giants, show your support, #savemeanjin
Details at savemeanjin.org