Claire Lehmann
@clairlemon
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Founder, editor @quillette, contributing writer @australian, @thedispatch 📧 subscribe: https://t.co/04OP3ssOXf
Sydney, Australia
Joined May 2013
I was honoured to give the Constance Holden Memorial Address for Distinguished Journalism at this year's ISIR Conference in Chicago. Here is the essay version of my speech. https://t.co/PymsMfpb4O
quillette.com
The Constance Holden Memorial Address, 2025.
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I wrote about this back in August--in a piece about Mamdani heralding the next generation of wokeness https://t.co/O2ejztr7Jv
Poor and middle class seeing how the RICH live on a daily basis via Instagram really COOKED our entire society man
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As sympathetic as I am to almost any case for American power, my reservations about @shadihamid's result from intrinsic doubts that progressivism is the proper vehicle for this cause. Read the essay:
Shadi Hamid has an uneasy conscience, and he doesn’t yet know what to do with it. | @bstewart1776
https://t.co/nSorTcFvsp
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From Achilles to Anakin Skywalker, the messiah myth has evolved from religious prophecy to cautionary tale, writes Stewart Slater https://t.co/Hmx8oOkfbP
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From Achilles to Anakin Skywalker, the messiah myth has evolved from religious prophecy to cautionary tale.
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Just as the Dutch reclaimed physical land to build the Netherlands, Australia should reclaim political land by creating new states to ease the country's housing crisis, writes Harry Lehmann https://t.co/2G49X7dzak
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Just as the Dutch reclaimed physical land to build the Netherlands, Australia should reclaim political land by creating new states to ease the country's housing crisis.
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What happens if there's an AI bubble and it crashes? If it's on the scale of the Dotcom Crash, it'll mean eliminating $16 trillion in value, or 8% of all household wealth.
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The community, the vibes, and the energy were truly unmatched! All weekend long, NYC came together at our first-ever CELSIUS Energy House to move, celebrate, recover, and recharge — all in true LIVE FIT GO fashion. We’ll be riding this high for a while!
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Prime example I’m trying to grow my solar lighting business which is profitable but can’t because I had to pump everything I have into a new mortgage for a bigger house. I’ve maxed out all my loan capacity so had to borrow money from my parents to buy stock of the lights.
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If this is confirmed, and I believe it will be, then the IOC has recognized biological reality, and will protect the boundary around women's sport. It was always a choice. https://t.co/KFUlgn5p0H
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IOC likely to announce new policy early in new year after findings of a scientific review about the permanent physical advantages of being born male
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Rising housing costs caused "51% of the total fertility rate decline between the 2000s and 2010s, and 7 percentage points fewer young families in the 2010s."
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It's interesting that out of Palantir co-founders, Peter Thiel - the old-school libertarian - appears more sympathetic to Gen Z economic woes than Alex Karp - who in 2018 described himself as a socialist.
“The average Ivy League grad voting for Mamdani is annoyed their education is not that valuable, and that the person who knows how to drill for oil has a more valuable profession...I think that annoys the fuck out of these people," Palantir, $PLTR, CEO has said.
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I agree with @HadleyFreeman . I am the witch that is easiest to talk about because, as a friend told me, ‘You’re only a racist, not a terf’. After the witch trials at Salem had stopped in 1692, it took a long time for the community to find words for what had happened. They began
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Kate Clanchy has had an apology from a publisher. Others are still waiting
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In the next 10 years most baby boomers will be entering assisted living or nursing homes. Almost 60% of homeowners don’t have a mortgage. Almost 30 % of baby boomers have 2 homes. If you buy a home in the next 10 years and especially at a 50 year mortgage, you will never see a
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Listen to the Pope
The media cannot and must not separate itself from the destiny of truth. Transparency of sources and ownership, accountability, quality, clarity, and objectivity are the keys to truly opening citizens' rights for all peoples.
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Read about what happened in Japan, and then reflect on where Australia might be in the cycle
This is a kick-the-can-down-the-road solution, and we've seen it before in Japan, and it was CRAZY. In the 80s real estate prices in Tokyo were high, so they started offering 50-year mortgages to make things "more affordable..." if you stretch the loan, the monthly payment looks
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I was struggling to understand why this would be promoted as a good thing—but then remembered that the average person may not understand compound interest.
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump appears to announce his intention to normalize 50 YEAR MORTGAGES, to make it easier for young people to buy a home via lower monthly payments He cites FDR as when the 30-year mortgage started to spread nationwide 👀
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The Albanese govts Housing Australia Future Fund has so far delivered 889 homes, 333 of which were simply purchased. To maintain the level of social housing as a % of dwelling stock, we needed over 15,000 in that time.
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The embattled government agency is being criticised over its purchase of thousands of ready-made dwellings, rather than commissioning new construction.
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Seems like a really big deal that 10% of Meta's revenue comes from outright scams. And that's their *internal* estimate, who knows what a fair outside report would say. This should shift your beliefs on whether our current social media set up is net positive for humanity.
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You literally cannot trust Chinese technology. And this is a massive problem.
TROJAN HORSE “Denmark is taking urgent action with its 262 Chinese buses after Norwegian city made startling discovery while testing them” These Chinese buses could be accessed remotely from the manufacturer’s HQ in China. Effectively, Yutong could shut the entire fleet down
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Peter Thiel today: “Boomers are strangely uncurious about how the world is not really working for their kids. It’s always hard to know how much bad faith there is or how bad the actors are. I think it’s odd that people thought it was odd that I was complaining about student debt
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THIS IS THE MOST UNDERVALUED COMPANY ON NASDAQ, according to Warren Buffett’s analysis. Buffett’s rule is simple: Buy real companies that earn real money at irrationally cheap prices. That description fits NextNRG Inc ($NXXT) perfectly. 📊 Facts: * Market Cap ≈ $200–250
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