Tim Lynch
@tim_lynchphd
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Professor of American politics, University of Melbourne. Author, In the Shadow of the Cold War (Cambridge, 2020). Regular contributor to The Australian.
Melbourne, Australia
Joined May 2012
The idea that the War on Terror was the work of a hardline cabal is too simplistic, argues @PatPorter76
https://t.co/Ws0tPpA4CI
thecritic.co.uk
The death of former U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney has revived an old canard from political discussion, decades old. It is the widespread notion that President George W. Bush, in office 2001-2009…
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Post of the year. Just brilliant.
In my piece, Decolonial Delusion I argue that Third-worldism is one of the most dangerous ideologies of the 21st century "From the safety of Paris or Toronto, they denounce repression they do not endure & romanticize regimes their families once fled." https://t.co/tvCetFdtmE
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‘The notion that Britain is prioritising Warfare over Welfare is absurd. Today, health and welfare combined take up approximately 40 per cent of the UK’s annual budget, while Defence must make do with 4-5 per cent. Disability benefits alone exceed the defence budget.’
My latest piece for @TheCriticMag, "The Folly of Disarmament." Zarah Sultana's glib, clickbait rhetoric does a disservice to the long tradition of serious leftist thought about defence and the working class. https://t.co/Kkyx1FJKWB
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In America, if you are 20, Donald Trump is your ‘lived experience’ of a conservative. While their teachers bend toward a banal identity politics, Trump has controlled the political discourse since they were in grade 5. MAGA—George Floyd—Covid lockdowns—trans ideology—Greta
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No finger wagging from a progressive leader has brought Gaza peace this close; Penny Wongism freed not a single hostage. My latest column: https://t.co/8ZujxaX4cp
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Wld love a share @AmyETatum @Center4Politics @LarrySabato @McFaul @richardmarcj @tim_lynchphd @MichaelCullina2 @ajwroe @pkandelic @MaraOlivaPhD @maitlis @TimNaftali 🇺🇸🤓
We’re back! Sept #podcast link below 🎤 Always a pleasure to hear insights from @rudalev on 🇺🇸 govt checks & balances esp at a time of @POTUS boundary pushing 😳 https://t.co/ye02Qn5A4o
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This is a brilliant and overdue take down of 'Alliance-ism'.
Trump’s opponents see alliances as near-sacred arrangements that must be foundational forever. We should be a bit more transactional, argues @PatPorter76
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Całe przemówienie wicepremiera @sikorskiradek podczas nadzwyczajnego posiedzenia Rady Bezpieczeństwa ONZ dotyczące naruszenia przez Rosję przestrzeni powietrznej Estonii ⬇️
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When tents appear in university quads they are usually filled with humourless Israelophobes. When Kirk showed up, everyone knew they would be part of a great theatre of democracy – if only for a few hours. My latest column: https://t.co/Zi9o21NGK1
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Trump does not just want to win the votes of men and women excluded from the coiffured grounds of the academy. He intends to shift American culture by encouraging universities to produce a different kind of citizen. Can it work? My latest article: https://t.co/GQeCXCXl2o
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Activist writers should not pretend their artistic freedom is threatened by anything other than the cultural safety they have fetishised and the administrative class they have empowered to enforce it. https://t.co/PXEknXYn8m
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Did Butler seal Trump’s victory? Salena Zito says yes. This is a book which grapples with the appeal of Trump to men and women whom his progressive opponents contend will make them all poorer. My review: https://t.co/JvFdtKvJMI
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Does Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot (1975) predict the rise of Donald Trump? Yes, I think it does. Testing the argument here. All welcome: https://t.co/2cenMSpr0a
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There are many 'classic' books we all know and love, but what about the other books that have shaped our lives?
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This is just superb.
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My latest article:
Opinion: Anti-racism has become a required opinion across the Australian public sector. Universities can’t get enough of it. It has become a cure-all for all sorts of discrimination, real and imagined: https://t.co/eP9nyiemDM
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My 50th article for the Oz. The Trump Revolution in 10 acts.
If Donald Trump maintains a fraction of the pace of his presidency so far, the remaining 42 months are likely to be transformative of American power and politics. Here are 10 reasons the Trump revolution may succeed: https://t.co/hrEQ3sG0NC
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