Adam Wakeling

My latest book, Why the Enlightenment Matters: The Shift in Our Thinking That Made the Modern World, by @Aus_Scholarly, is now up on Amazon and Google Books as an E-Book: amazon.com.au/Why-Enlightenm… books.google.ch/books/about/Wh…

Me on Anzac Day's changing meaning (link in replies).

I'm in @FreethinkerMag on online extremism's challenge to the Enlightenment (link in replies).

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Given the YIMBY v NIMBY debates of the 2020s, I thought I would go back to look at how the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge was received in the 1920s.

I compare One Nation's performance in the recent SA election with its famous peak performance in Queensland in 1998.

I write about the origins of women's suffrage, including the curiously early enfranchisement of women in Utah.

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I write about social capital, democracy, and isolation - the impact that the decline in membership organisations has on individuals and society as a whole.

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I write some more on the rise of populism in Australia, looking briefly at the breakdown of party identity and the rise of the "Double Haters". Unsurprisingly, I'll have a lot more to say on this topic!

@IonaItalia Great to see you back!

I have recovered my account after a phishing scam. The hackers sent a link to my DMs via a compromised account asking me to vote in a podcast competition. While they had control of my account, they sent this link on in DMs to *many* people. DON'T OPEN ANY LINK. Pls retweet.

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I have written about Amelia, and how Shout Out UK being caught flat-footed is symptomatic of a bigger problem with how governments understand online radicalisation.

Link: open.substack.com/pub/adammwakel…

I have started a new series on the origins and development of democracy in Australia, starting with Parliament as it stood in Britain in the 1780s, where about 2% of the population had the vote.

Link: open.substack.com/pub/adammwakel…

I continue my series of articles on populism in Australia, writing on why the populist surge in Europe and the United States in the late 2010s and early 2020s did not make its way down under (link in next post).